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My preferred login name, and in fact also my legal name, are ASCII safe. I've never personally had to fight computer systems built with ridiculous assumptions (
by gspr 2y ago
My preferred login name, and in fact also my legal name, are ASCII safe. I've never personally had to fight computer systems built with ridiculous assumptions (in the domain of names, at least). What I'm exhibiting in this thread is called empathy for people who don't happen to land in that category.
- knorker 2y agoDid you appreciate my comment's real meaning, that one can have empathy for everyone else too, who need to work with this data? Another solution is, of course, to give everyone usernames they don't want. E.g. your user name is your employee number. Or your department plus three letters from your name that happen to make your username unique. I've seen both. I also extend my empathy to those who, after choosing a username nobody can type, don't get invited to meetings, don't get messages, are never referred to as the domain expert, because how can I add "习近平" to a meeting, if I can't even search for their username? Say even "mårten" is not showing up when I search my email, because those are not the same letters as "marten". Meh, emacron knows almost as much on this topic, so I'll just invite him instead. If you're already powerful enough, then people will be forced to copy-paste "mårten". If you're not already powerful enough, then you don't get invited at all, because that doesn't scale.