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Why are usernames mostly limited to 10 characters? (self.nintendo)

submitted 10 months ago by favrion to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I've wondered if it's a Japanese language thing, with each character going further and allowing more expressiveness in a limited space.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It's certainly part of it, you can do a lot more with fewer characters in Japanese.

For example it's kind of ridiculous how limited every input still is in western localizations of Animal Crossing. Even worse, it's not only for nicknames, but you're supposed to fit stuff like greetings and expressions in a dozen characters too.

It's bad enough in English, but absurd in languages that have generally longer words like French. You can tell even the localization team struggled to make those intelligible.