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> encourage stripping diacretics I wouldn't recommend it as there are official tranformations from the countries which uses diacretics and they most times are
by dathinab 3y ago
> encourage stripping diacretics
I wouldn't recommend it as there are official tranformations from the countries which uses diacretics and they most times are not to strip them. It's kinda another case of people forcing stuff onto other cultures. And if you do bussiness in some of the countries in some industries you might even get into legal trouble if you apply that.
- yencabulator 3y agoTake it up with the spec, then. That is the recommendation: > Section 6 of the 9303 part 3 document specifies transliteration of letters outside the A–Z range. It recommends that diacritical marks on Latin letters A-Z are simply omitted (ç → C, ð → D, ê → E, ñ → N etc.), but it allows the following transliterations: [...] You said > you might even get into legal trouble if you apply that. We're talking about passports, this seems not relevant. For passport-related use such as travel, you use the form of the name written on the passport, exactly as-is.