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Now you assume everyone travels internationally (and that assumes they travel with a passport, not necessarily true for instance in the EU), or even remembers h

Now you assume everyone travels internationally (and that assumes they travel with a passport, not necessarily true for instance in the EU), or even remembers how their name was botched by this format.

cabalamat 8y ago
> Now you assume everyone travels internationally I'm not making that assumption. I'm saying that in terms of all the directions that name-processing and name-recording software are pulled in, it's a compromise that works for many purposes. It isn't perfect, and I'm sure some people can come up with edge cases where other data formats might work better.