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It's just really annoying when it's a government system and it's use is required. This is slightly off topic, but I recently came across a lawsuit involving Ge
by yoo1I 11y ago
It's just really annoying when it's a government system and it's use is required.
This is slightly off topic, but I recently came across a lawsuit involving German passport and their having a person's name printed IN ALL CAPS. The plaintiff was suing for his right to use lower case characters as that was how his name was spelled correctly vis-a-vis how other families who use the same letters in the same order but with different casing spelt it.
falsehoods government bureaucrats believe about names...
- tdeck 11y agoThis reminds me of the (endlessly hilarious) tax protester argument that you don't have to respond to a court summons where your name is in all caps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_conspiracy_arguments#.22Capital_letters.22_argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_conspiracy_argum...
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoRelatedly, the OCR machine-readable part of a standard (ICAO) passport can't contain accented letters, so ICAO has a standard for how to systematically transliterate various scripts into Basic Latin.
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