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> No one gets left out due to lack of unicode. Except people with names that don't fit into the ASCII character set, I guess? What if this was a government si

> No one gets left out due to lack of unicode. Except people with names that don't fit into the ASCII character set, I guess? What if this was a government site that you have to interact with for some reason? Something where using your full name is important?

harperlee 5y ago
You use a romanized version instead of e.g. kanji. Or you lose apostrophes. My name does not typically fit english forms and i personally would blush if I had to say I’m being left out. Sure, it would be better if I did not have to do this, but bucketing this into the “the system is racist” argument together with other real issues, imho, its compeltely tone deaf.
- sneak 5y ago
  People shouldn't have to misspell their names because the software sucks.
  - harperlee 5y ago
    That is true. It is also not my point above.
jcranmer 5y ago
> What if this was a government site that you have to interact with for some reason? Something where using your full name is important? In the US, your legal name for government purposes generally consists only of the characters a-z/A-Z without diacritics (whether - and ' are included depends on the state).