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Fair enough, I disagree with the Icelandic government here. However... It's a name that's not native to the language. Let's, for a thought experiment, go on a
by quink 12y ago
Fair enough, I disagree with the Icelandic government here. However... It's a name that's not native to the language.
Let's, for a thought experiment, go on a bit of a slippery slope and consider someone whose name is outside Unicode's BMP. Would you support it too? What about a name that can't be normalised to Normalisation Form C, but only with composing diacritics? How about the topic of Han Unification - the TRON character set containing code points that aren't in Unicode? What about someone whose name has a transliteration that would blow Soundex out of the water, not that that's a particularly hard thing to do to begin with?
- jeremysmyth 12y agoExcellent points, all, and a valuable comment as a result. However, why should the government make those decisions? As a follow-on question to someone who gives a perfectly good answer that is convincing and reasonable, should that answer also apply to destination countries if someone travels or emigrates? i.e. should Iceland's (or Norway's, or Mexico's or Burma's) country decide what name I get to bring with me? (that they already do in some cases is not a valid answer!)