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That being said, I’d at least expect airlines from countries with latin alphabet to support extended latin charsets. Not doing so just complicates things. My na
by m_mueller 6y ago
That being said, I’d at least expect airlines from countries with latin alphabet to support extended latin charsets. Not doing so just complicates things. My name is Müller. This can be translated to basic latin as Mueller (which e.g. is my passport). No English speaker gets that, thus most systems just replace ü -> u, and create confusion in the process as then the name does not match the passport anymore. And that’s just German, probably the closest language to English. I can’t even imagine the troubles of Vietnamese people, whose language got romanized by a Frenchman, to spell their names so that American programmed systems don’t trip up. A little more flexibility in thinking about languages would do American tech companies good IMO.