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"Incidentally, I have a friend whose passport says "Ingy döt Net"." Is it an American passport? If it comes from a country which uses ö as part of its alphabet

by jarek 16y ago

"Incidentally, I have a friend whose passport says "Ingy döt Net"." Is it an American passport? If it comes from a country which uses ö as part of its alphabet I don't see what would be surprising.

jrockway 16y ago
It is an American passport.
- jarek 16y ago
  Ah. Out of curiosity, do you know what restrictions there are on characters that can be used? Are the criteria for "legal characters in a name" in the U.S. driven by technology/codepages? ö is in ISO 8859-1 and Windows-1252, so perhaps support is more straightforward. I have a feeling č or ł might be a different story. I keep on meaning to look into synchronizing my birth name (with an ł and a ó, latter is in 8859-1 but not the former) with my legal name in Canada, but I consistently conclude I can't be bothered...
  - salvadors 16y ago
    Ingy used to have a blog post about all the different hassles he had with different people coping badly with the ö (passport, driving licence, Amazon account etc). He's killed his blog at least twice since then though, so I don't think it's currently available and I can't find it in archive.org I don't know about the US, but I made a series of Freedom of Information requests in the UK to find the answer to exactly this issue there, and was somewhat surprised to find that (in Northern Ireland at least) supposedly any Unicode character is valid: http://nothing.tmtm.com/2008/11/irene-and-irene-and-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F-and-%E5%AE%89%E5%A8%9C/ http://nothing.tmtm.com/2008/11/irene-and-irene-and-%D0%B0%D... Whether that extends to the snowman character and the like is still an open question...
    - jarek 16y ago
      Yeah - I'm not at all convinced the principle of having my name right would be worth the hassle. Very interesting about the situation in NI. Thanks for the link.
shabda 16y ago
Similarity to .Net the framework, maybe?
- salvadors 16y ago
  No. He simply harmonised his personal name and his domain name (plus a heavy metal umlaut for extra fun).

by jarek 16y ago

"Incidentally, I have a friend whose passport says "Ingy döt Net"." Is it an American passport? If it comes from a country which uses ö as part of its alphabet I don't see what would be surprising.

jrockway 16y ago

It is an American passport.

jarek 16y ago
Ah. Out of curiosity, do you know what restrictions there are on characters that can be used? Are the criteria for "legal characters in a name" in the U.S. driven by technology/codepages? ö is in ISO 8859-1 and Windows-1252, so perhaps support is more straightforward. I have a feeling č or ł might be a different story. I keep on meaning to look into synchronizing my birth name (with an ł and a ó, latter is in 8859-1 but not the former) with my legal name in Canada, but I consistently conclude I can't be bothered...
- salvadors 16y ago
  Ingy used to have a blog post about all the different hassles he had with different people coping badly with the ö (passport, driving licence, Amazon account etc). He's killed his blog at least twice since then though, so I don't think it's currently available and I can't find it in archive.org I don't know about the US, but I made a series of Freedom of Information requests in the UK to find the answer to exactly this issue there, and was somewhat surprised to find that (in Northern Ireland at least) supposedly any Unicode character is valid: http://nothing.tmtm.com/2008/11/irene-and-irene-and-%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F-and-%E5%AE%89%E5%A8%9C/ http://nothing.tmtm.com/2008/11/irene-and-irene-and-%D0%B0%D... Whether that extends to the snowman character and the like is still an open question...
  - jarek 16y ago
    Yeah - I'm not at all convinced the principle of having my name right would be worth the hassle. Very interesting about the situation in NI. Thanks for the link.

shabda 16y ago

Similarity to .Net the framework, maybe?

salvadors 16y ago
No. He simply harmonised his personal name and his domain name (plus a heavy metal umlaut for extra fun).