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As someone with an apostrophe in my name, it has been my experience whenever I come across this sort of thing, you can be sure the project is crap.
by charlieo88 2y ago
As someone with an apostrophe in my name, it has been my experience whenever I come across this sort of thing, you can be sure the project is crap.
- bombcar 2y agoLegally change your name to have \’ such as D\’Armond. That should break untold numbers of systems.
- tsimionescu 2y agoLots of countries limit what you can name yourself. I very much doubt having a special apostrophe in your name can be a legal requirement. Either way, apostrophes in names is quite uncommon in many parts of the world, and they are very likely to be ignored even on paper forms in those areas, if they are even allowed. In general, each area has certain limits on what kinds of names if allows/understands, and it is up to the minority to adapt one way or another. It's very reasonable to want an Irish or maybe even British system to recognize a name like O'Reilly, but it's not really something you can expect of a Japanese system. Just as much as you shouldn't expect a name like 田中 to be recognized in France.
- bombcar 2y agoThis results in amusing side-effects, like buying a house requiring you to sign every variation of your name that the credit check found, but it can also get you multiple “one per person” signup options, so there’s that, too.
- arrowsmith 2y agoIt's like the stories of people with the last name "Null" who get errors when trying to enter their name into websites. If that's true then I don't want to think about how poorly built (and insecure) those systems must be.