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I have an ø in my name. It is especially annoying when entering payment details and I have to input my name as it appears on my credit card. It is surprisingly

by tokai 8y ago

I have an ø in my name. It is especially annoying when entering payment details and I have to input my name as it appears on my credit card. It is surprisingly often that only ascii is accepted. I would guess the anglo-internet is hell if you're from Asia.

chapium 8y ago
Perhaps the letter should be changed to the bank’s local language? What if your name was 細分?
thaumasiotes 8y ago
I pretty much never input my name as it appears on my credit card. I have yet to have anyone (in person or online) complain about this, despite instructions saying to do so. (Specifically, my middle initial appears on my credit card, but I never fill it in when buying stuff online.)
- rsync 8y ago
  "I have to input my name as it appears on my credit card" This is only true with AMEX as they are the only major processor that checks the inputed name. Visa and Mastercard do not check on the name at all - you can use any strings you like. All of the online shopping and ordering I do (including Amazon, etc.) is with a made up First/Last. I have done this for almost 15 years with various Visa cards with no problems.
- cuddlybacon 8y ago
  I have had purchases declined because I put "John Smith" and not "John X Smith" as my credit card said. Could be different since I'm not in the US.
Symbiote 8y ago
An American user of my software was yesterday complaining that she didn't like seeing the weird letters in names etc, and wanted them stripped out. I argued that changing Ø to O was just as wrong as a Norwegian some time ago perhaps changing her name's W to V, and that was obviously unacceptable. (I'm not sure how realistic this is, but I've seen an old child's alphabet poster that didn't include W.)
ktpsns 8y ago
In Germany, transliterations are widespread and officially accepted. Ö=OE, Ä=AE, Ü=UE, ß=SS makes it fine to write Hübner as Huebner even in the passport and other official documents. I wonder why other countries do not allow transliterations as a legal way to deal with anglo-centric character sets?
- wink 8y ago
  Not sure what the official stance is, but people with Turkish names seem to (often?) transliterate ü = u, ö => o, as seen for example at https://twitter.com/mesutozil1088 https://twitter.com/mesutozil1088 and https://twitter.com/ismail_kupeli https://twitter.com/ismail_kupeli - not sure about Swedes.
- thedailymail 8y ago
  Romanization/anglicization can be tough for many languages. Thai for example has vowels that do not have an equivalent in English, and presents the added difficulty of being tonal, which means even if the pronunciation is anglicized, the tonality will be lost. Former example, the name of the former king of Thailand was typically written "Bhumibol Adulyadej" but the pronunciation is closer to the alternate "Phumiphon Adunyadet" and neither really hits all the notes in the way it actually sounds when spoken (although I admit I can't think of a better way to write it in the English alphabet). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Bhumibol_Adulyadej.ogg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Bhumibol...

by tokai 8y ago

chapium 8y ago

Perhaps the letter should be changed to the bank’s local language? What if your name was 細分?

thaumasiotes 8y ago

I pretty much never input my name as it appears on my credit card. I have yet to have anyone (in person or online) complain about this, despite instructions saying to do so. (Specifically, my middle initial appears on my credit card, but I never fill it in when buying stuff online.)

rsync 8y ago
"I have to input my name as it appears on my credit card" This is only true with AMEX as they are the only major processor that checks the inputed name. Visa and Mastercard do not check on the name at all - you can use any strings you like. All of the online shopping and ordering I do (including Amazon, etc.) is with a made up First/Last. I have done this for almost 15 years with various Visa cards with no problems.
cuddlybacon 8y ago
I have had purchases declined because I put "John Smith" and not "John X Smith" as my credit card said. Could be different since I'm not in the US.

Symbiote 8y ago

An American user of my software was yesterday complaining that she didn't like seeing the weird letters in names etc, and wanted them stripped out. I argued that changing Ø to O was just as wrong as a Norwegian some time ago perhaps changing her name's W to V, and that was obviously unacceptable. (I'm not sure how realistic this is, but I've seen an old child's alphabet poster that didn't include W.)

ktpsns 8y ago

In Germany, transliterations are widespread and officially accepted. Ö=OE, Ä=AE, Ü=UE, ß=SS makes it fine to write Hübner as Huebner even in the passport and other official documents. I wonder why other countries do not allow transliterations as a legal way to deal with anglo-centric character sets?

wink 8y ago
Not sure what the official stance is, but people with Turkish names seem to (often?) transliterate ü = u, ö => o, as seen for example at https://twitter.com/mesutozil1088 https://twitter.com/mesutozil1088 and https://twitter.com/ismail_kupeli https://twitter.com/ismail_kupeli - not sure about Swedes.
thedailymail 8y ago
Romanization/anglicization can be tough for many languages. Thai for example has vowels that do not have an equivalent in English, and presents the added difficulty of being tonal, which means even if the pronunciation is anglicized, the tonality will be lost. Former example, the name of the former king of Thailand was typically written "Bhumibol Adulyadej" but the pronunciation is closer to the alternate "Phumiphon Adunyadet" and neither really hits all the notes in the way it actually sounds when spoken (although I admit I can't think of a better way to write it in the English alphabet). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Bhumibol_Adulyadej.ogg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Bhumibol...