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All names can be transliterated if you can agree on the transliteration system with the FSF. :P Even if you stick to just "standard" transliteration probably mo
by omaranto 5y ago
All names can be transliterated if you can agree on the transliteration system with the FSF. :P Even if you stick to just "standard" transliteration probably most names can be transliterated. The problem is that the transliteration is unlikely to be the person's legal name! In my case it wouldn't be. My legal name has an "í". I wrote to the FSF with an "i" to satisfy the ASCII requirement, but the thing with an "i" is not my legal name. I doubt in my case there will any trouble, but I thought it was funny the very first instruction in the copyright assignment process was literally impossible to carry out.
- FDSGSG 5y agoI bet your passport has a transliterated version of your name on it. In fact, you'll have a really hard time finding anyone who does not.
- omaranto 5y agoI do happen to have a passport and it does have a version of my name in only ASCII characters, in all caps. I'm not sure whether what is on my passport is "my full legal name" or not. Indeed I do not know if that term has a precise definition. I can tell you my name is written slightly differently on my birth certificate. I didn't use the passport version of my name for this FSF email because it felt weird to use all caps. Instead I just changed the non-ASCII "í" to an "i".
- omaranto 5y ago> In fact, you'll have a really hard time finding anyone who does not. This part is a little false. It's actually pretty easy to find people without a transliterated version of the their name on a passport, because it's pretty easy to find people without a passport! But I agree that passports usually have a transliterated version of the name, at least every single passport I've ever seen for someone with a non-ASCII name does have a transliteration.