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> 9. People’s names are written in ASCII. This is apparently true in the UK, although they use the terms "special characters" and "normal letters". https://pas
by cabalamat 8y ago
> 9. People’s names are written in ASCII.
This is apparently true in the UK, although they use the terms "special characters" and "normal letters". https://passportapplication.service.gov.uk/help/html/pages/10.05_01_name-to-appear_en.html https://passportapplication.service.gov.uk/help/html/pages/1... :
>We cannot show full stops, hyphens, accents or other special characters in your passport. Full stops and hyphens in a name will be replaced with spaces.
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>If your name has a special character or accent mark please enter your name using a normal letter eg e instead of é or a instead of ä etc.
- wwosik 8y ago"normal" letter sounds rather judging, doesn't it? Altough I suspect it is probably a product of an undereducated person.
- soundwave106 8y agoAgreed, simply "please use the unaccented letter" would have been fine instructions. Accented letters are pretty "normal" in many languages.
- occamrazor 8y agoAccented letters are not the only issue. Apart from the already mentioned apostrophes and hyphens, there are consonants with diacritics such as ç, č and ñ, or cases where substituting an “accented” letter with the corresponding unaccented one is not appropriate (e.g. ä in German is transcribed as ae in ASCII).
- cabalamat 8y ago> "normal" letter sounds rather judging, doesn't it? it is a bit. > Altough I suspect it is probably a product of an undereducated person. Or an attempt to use non-technical English. I doubt if most people know what an ASCII character is.