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I can see how this happens, but come on. Write your software to account for these edge cases. Reminds me of people who can’t register for services because of no

I can see how this happens, but come on. Write your software to account for these edge cases. Reminds me of people who can’t register for services because of non-western names: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/man-called-phuc-dat-bich-posts-passport-facebook-prove-his-name-real-a6741586.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/man-cal... https://qz.com/1249588/how-i-learned-to-live-with-a-name-thats-a-constant-source-of-humiliation/ https://qz.com/1249588/how-i-learned-to-live-with-a-name-tha... And of course, the king: https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/

PurpleFoxy 6y ago
I actually can’t see how this happens. I can’t even imagine how you could get strings to actually care what the content is. Inserted unsafely in to sql maybe?
- shakna 6y ago
  > Inserted unsafely in to sql maybe? Precisely. SQL Injection attacks used to be very, very common. Whilst using parameterized queries today is now hopefully the norm, it was normal at one point to just use string interpolation. And then instead of paramaterizing after you hit your first bug, introducing a function to try and sanitise your strings, but still using interpolation.
- pohl 6y ago
  We were young. The world was new. We had a marshaling bug. It’s no great mystery.