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You might be able to but I wonder if you want to. (Considering this is in Western Europe, Belgium) Most of the people will not be able to convert the characters
by consp 5y ago
You might be able to but I wonder if you want to. (Considering this is in Western Europe, Belgium) Most of the people will not be able to convert the characters into something they can process, even if they wanted to. While maybe legal, it would speed your processing up a lot to use the phonetic writing in the extended latin character set.
The diacritical marks however have some familiarity and are in common use.
On a sidenote: lots of airlines also have this issue where an accent or other dimark will remove the character completely making your name different from the one in your passport. Could be quite annoying.
edit: thought it was in the Netherlands but it was in Flanders/Belgium.
- gambiting 5y agoIn all of EU you can have your name spelled with or without the diacritics are it's equally valid, I have official ID documents with my name with and without the diacritics and it's not a problem in the slightest. In fact when my son was born, we decided to keep the diacritics off his first passport(he has dual nationality) but keep them in his second passport for the country where the diacritics came from originally.
- irishsultan 5y agoIt's in Belgium actually.
- consp 5y agoYes, Noticed that later. Though my point still applies.
- tdeck 5y agoSouthwest Airlines doesn't even support having a hyphen in your name, as if that's some exotic character and not something fairly common in English surnames.