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Sometimes the keyboard is all that is needed to put a stop to non-ascii names. I remember when I was traveling through Ecuador with a friend of mine named Jörg
by mlang23 6y ago
Sometimes the keyboard is all that is needed to put a stop to non-ascii names. I remember when I was traveling through Ecuador with a friend of mine named Jörg. We ended up renaming him to Jorge whenever we had to buy a bus ticket :-)
- Muromec 6y agoHow Jörg is really spelled in a passport? Because names in passports are restricted to ASCII as far as I remember. And to get to Ecuador one has to fly (I guess?), and airplane ticketing systems are the worst when it comes to names.
- 7kay 6y agoI'm gonna assume said Jörg is German. Quoting from Wikipedia > German names containing umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or ß are spelled in the correct way in the non-machine-readable zone of the passport, but with AE, OE, UE, and/or SS in the machine-readable zone In my EU driver's license the umlauts are spelled in the correct way, these aren't in my name, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_passport#Different_spellings_of_the_same_name_within_the_same_document https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_passport#Different_spel...
- howlgarnish 6y agoThe machine-readable zone has strict limitations (worse than ASCII, in fact), but the human-readable parts can contain anything including non-Latin scripts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport#Names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport#Name...