You shouldn't need to disable display names just to combat the 0.01% of people with annoying names. NFKC normalization is a better solution.

Or just turn display names of for users with special characters

Today I learned Lemmy accounts can have a display name. I thought it was just their account name.

Less jarring than emoji at least.

It's a way to complicated suggestion

Instead do a sha256 of @

So veryfancyfakeuser@lemmy.fake

becomes

🌈cb76aae36c😘@lemmy.fake

And just to f with people add some emojis before and after.

How is that applicable?

I edited the image to mask the name. Can you please delete this comment?

That's not quite as straightforward as you think. These are emojis, they ARE text, just like letters from various languages...etc are also text.

It would be a hell of a lot easier just to ban non-ascii characters than to start changing the font size based on each individual character. This would also be something that every single client would have to implement themselves which they definitely would not, the rendering performance implications would turn it into more work than you would think.

I would prefer to set the colours that I see, makes it easier to tell who is a commentor and who is OP

I don't think anyone is outraged. It's just an annoyance. I'm happily scrolling and reading titles and then N O T I C E M E!. It's a distraction.

A name alone is personalization enough.