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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. driv
by 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 agoIngy 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 agoYeah - 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.