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I think you will find that non-U.S. banks don’t use ASCII for this exact reason. A transliteration is arguably not someone’s legal name, and furthermore it’s k
by mikl 5y ago
I think you will find that non-U.S. banks don’t use ASCII for this exact reason.
A transliteration is arguably not someone’s legal name, and furthermore it’s kinda rude to demand that we mangle our names to fit someone’s 1970s technology system.
- FDSGSG 5y agoPractically all CRS tax information sharing happens using ASCII-7
- mikl 5y agoYes, since that’s basically been dictated by the U.S. Government. That does not mean the banks over here are using ASCII. Very systems generally use whatever national encoding was used before Unicode (ISO-8859-1 aka Latin 1 in my case) and more modern systems just use UTF-8. Trust me, I have non-ASCII characters in both my surname and my address. The only times I have to transliterate them are if travelling, shipping or banking internationally.