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My last name contains the character ß. This silently fails often, that's why I put in ss almost everywhere, because a lot of important mail had then encoding er
by _glass 3y ago
My last name contains the character ß. This silently fails often, that's why I put in ss almost everywhere, because a lot of important mail had then encoding errors. Also difficult is the transition between different countries, that don't have this letter. In Germany for official communication it has to be ß, but in the other country it has to be ss. That's why we need proper unicode support everywhere.
- gwd 3y ago> That's why we need proper unicode support everywhere. A couple of years ago when I wrote a little webapp to do some scheduling stuff for our community's yearly conference, I just used plain unicode strings for usernames, including spaces. I didn't really see why not: The database (SQLite) handles unicode, the backend (golang) handles unicode, the frontend handles unicode, nothing ever gets passed into a shell program or put into CSV or anything, all queries are parameterized; why bother making pointless restrictions?
- aftoprokrustes 3y agoThis is I think a much bigger issue, and pretty much impossible to understand for most users: the fact that the frontend happily accepted your name/e-mail/whatever is _not_ an proof that it can handle it. I tried to use gmail's feature that you own all addresses of the form my.name+whatever@gmail.com when registering to services, but it silently failed so often that I do not even bother trying anymore.
- lifestyleguru 3y agoA mere email... I had a situation with a bank when their website accepted new password but the backend implicitly and without feedback trimmed the new password to 10 characters.
- happymellon 3y agoHSBC had this problem. Not sure if it still does, but it's a big enough institution that I feel it deserves being called out.
- Macha 3y agoPermanent TSB in Ireland did the same until like 2020.
- jp191919 3y agoI had this problem with Transunion (a credit reporting agency in the US). They shortened my password to 15 characters, didn't tell me or anything, I had to figure it out myself when trying to login.
- bonton89 3y agoPaypal did this with 20 characters. I can't even remember how I figured it out so I could login. I don't know if it truncated it automatically or it just stopped accepting input after 20 characters and I of course did not notice since the password entry fields were masked.
- lucakiebel 3y agoTheir password reset form didn’t have the restriction, so you could reset your password to 21 chars, and then never log in again
- yukkuri 3y agoSame, on multiple sites. It is obnoxious as heck
- emptyfile 3y agoAt least ss is an acceptable and widley understood replacement for ß. My last name end on "ić" so every time, even on many EU shops and websites, I get to choose if I want to write my name wrong with "ic" and definitley get the package(cause the post understands) or write my name properly and get my package in 90% of cases. Its just plain weird that a Spanish/French/UK online shop will support their weird characters but not full Unicode.
- jareklupinski 3y ago> I get to choose if I want to write my name wrong ... and definitley get the package ... or write my name properly and get my package in 90% of cases. every time i walk into a coffee shop i have to judge how much trouble spelling my name 'correctly' will be and will switch to "Y" in those cases like, I thought Joachim was supposed to blaze the trail for the rest of us soft J's :(
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago> Its just plain weird that a Spanish/French/UK online shop will support their weird characters but not full Unicode. Between plain 7-bit ASCII and full Unicode there were a few decades of make-do with several 8 bit encodings.