> this in no way relates to anything Hacker News is about. Disagree. It's a news story that relates to namespaces, encoding algorithms, language-independent op

> this in no way relates to anything Hacker News is about. Disagree. It's a news story that relates to namespaces, encoding algorithms, language-independent operation, and the occasional need to hack around arbitrary bureaucratic restrictions/conventions. Could easily prompt interesting discussion that sheds light on related issues. The Icelandic legal system's odd restrictions on allowable names are only a couple steps removed from the problem of computer systems that require people to have a middle initial (even if they have no middle name) or that prevent umlauts in a lastname field.