> I agree on the object level that banks really ought to spell our names right. That is even more so as it spills into CC verifications, so bank limitations “i

> I agree on the object level that banks really ought to spell our names right. That is even more so as it spills into CC verifications, so bank limitations “infect” many payment aspects. I had that issue because I moved country and my original bank had no support for customers with a main residence outside the country, so the entire billing address had a weird-ass setup to be fit (a nonsense zip code and the actual country of residence filled in an ancillary field), and using the correct address for billing would fail their checks. > However I strongly doubt that we should force them to do so by law. Why not? This is literally a generations-old issue, clearly technical and social pressure has not fixed the issue. > If you want to force an organisation to support a sensible character set, please make a law or regulation that explicitly demands that. Instead of sneaking it in via the backdoor. There is no backdoor, that’s a front matter of the law. While the safeguarding of data is the most well known prong of GDPR, it has always included a right to accuracy and rectification, quoth Article 16: > The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. And Article 5 1.d: > [Personal data shall be] accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purpose for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay