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I 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.
by FDSGSG 5y ago
I 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.