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My first name (Sébastien) fits in latin1 (ISO-8859-1) and I still can't trust airlines websites to deal with it correctly, so I remove the (mandatory in French)
by sjrd 3y ago
My first name (Sébastien) fits in latin1 (ISO-8859-1) and I still can't trust airlines websites to deal with it correctly, so I remove the (mandatory in French) diacritic. I don't know how people with names outside of that range navigate online. It's pretty appalling that we haven't fixed this yet.
- NooneAtAll3 3y agofrench airlines?
- mort96 3y agoMy favourite is when they stress the importance of typing the name exactly as it appears on the passport or on a debit card, then doesn't accept my name. This is why I don't use Namecheap anymore fwiw. They used to accept 'ø', they redesigned their interface, I had to add a new debit card to my account, their new system didn't accept 'ø' yet told me to write the name "exactly as it is on the card". Customer service just told me to write a name that's not mine in the billing info; I moved to a different registrar instead.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoIt's not quite the same, but every time I put my apartment number in the second address field (which is more or less exactly for apartment/duplex numbers etc), it thinks for a second and says "USPS has a suggested more accurate address" which simply appends it to the street address. Why do we even have that field anymore?
- emilecantin 3y agoI've been called Â~™mile or similar a few too many times before discovering my name is actually spelled Emile on my birth certificate. I stopped even trying for Émile at that point. Also, to the original article's point, it looks like these websites would exclude like half of Québec's population; dual last names are very common here (women keep their names after marriage, making the "mother's maiden name" security question pretty stupid).
- yukkuri 3y ago"Security questions" are as a class pretty stupid.
- TacticalCoder 3y ago> ... before discovering my name is actually spelled Emile on my birth certificate. I stopped even trying for Émile at that point. Diactrics on uppercase letters weren't that common before: they were officially supposed to be there on uppercase characters but: - old french typewriters didn't have them (they had the lowercase é, è, à etc. though) - people using early computers had no idea how to encode them at all (but é, è, à etc. were on the keyboard) [1] But "ATTENTION MARCHE" and "ATTENTION MARCHÉ" are two very different things. It's simply wrong to use the first one if you meant the second and vice versa. Now I know a friend who lives in the US and who simply dropped the diacritic from its family name: so now he and his kids have a "different" family name than his family in Europe. He found it easier that way. [1] People using Word in the early nineties had to type 'é' and then select that character and go to a menu to transform it to uppercase, because "shift+é" would enter the digit '2'.