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Windows set up with Microsoft Account uses abbreviated e-mail for user names, because UTF-8 breaks apps, including many East Asian apps.

non-Western Windows users always knew never to use anything outside ASCII for usernames, passwords, or any programmatically used identifiers. It's English users that haven't learned it.






Sure, but space is an ASCII character.



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