This is blaming the victim
People have taken this to a ridiculous level. Giving practical advice about how to avoid problems is not blaming the victim. Telling my child to look both ways before crossing the street is not blaming him if he gets hit. It's not wanting to see him get hurt when the person actually at fault fucks up. Telling someone to avoid non-ASCII characters because a program can't handle it is not blaming them....
Your comment was unhelpful. Great! Not their fault! What now? It's also part of a larger trend that will lead to people being hurt.
My name appears differently in my passport, on plane tickets (not always using the same modification), and my green card. And for the latter two I left out the part of my name that can’t properly be represented at all in ASCII. And you are saying that somehow I am at fault?
Yes... The computer is at fault for not supporting proper names... That's literally what everyone has said. Nobody blamed the user....
> Your attitude reminds me of the people in the 60s who included punch cards in the utility bills, marking them “DO NOT FOLD, SPLINDLE, OR MUTILATE” (it became a meme).
The problem should be fixed, but it's not victim blaming to tell someone how to still submit their bill.
> And you are saying that somehow I am at fault?
No... I'm literally saying the opposite.... I think you need to reread your comment, then my comment.
Telling you to omit those characters so you can still travel internationally is not blaming you in any way shape or form... Your criticism of practical advice being victim blaming is harmful and unhelpful.
As much as I wish we lived in a better world where name characters were better handled, using anything outside of [a-ZA-Z]{12} as a username is a world of hurt. Some people just realize it later than others.
So yes, you shouldn't think of your handlename as your name, it's just another identifier, and choosing simple handle names is a life skill at this point.