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[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 29 minutes ago

Not legal in Sweden. Our "IRS" must also accept the name and deem it legal.

I for one like this. As it stops some very stupid people to name their children some very stupid names. Such as "Adolf Hitler".

And yes. Someone did try to name their child this and they were appropriately stoped from doing it.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 18 minutes ago

If only Sweden invaded the rest of the world instead of Russia... *le sigh*

[-] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 40 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Not legal in Canada. Your legal name must use Latin characters only. This is a sore point for indigenous people.

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 hour ago

Hello my name is JohnDoe. My name only contains Latin characters, no spaces allowed.

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 48 minutes ago

Ah, but you see, "John" and "Doe" are two names - first and last - and when you say "My name is", you're really listing out your names, with spaces inbetween!

But then there's hyphenated names, and I have no idea how those are treated.

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 6 points 27 minutes ago

"John Doe" vs ["John", "Doe"] vs {"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"}

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)
console.log(Object.values(name).join("\n"));
[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The Romans also had spaces in between words

[-] dch82@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

But did they have lowercase?

EDIT: Hello my name is JOHN DOE. Only latin characters allowed

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago)

But did they have ~~lowercase~~ english language?

Salve! John Doe nomen meum est.

Only latin ~~characters~~ allowed

(That's all the latin I remember from school back then)

Did the Romans not use line breaks?

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Blank spaces arent characters by definition as they're the space that allows the letters to exist

[-] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 23 minutes ago

Deep. Is Python a form of Jazz?

[-] socsa@piefed.social 37 points 2 hours ago

If elected president my first order of business will be to make all birth certificates fully unicode compatible.

[-] agilob@programming.dev 6 points 31 minutes ago

How is your son X Æ A-12?

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 hours ago
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[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

John doe is invaild syntax.

It just be

(John \doe);

[-] trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org 90 points 5 hours ago

I have an apostrophe and it's super annoying as some companies see it as a SQL injection hack and sanitize it.

So I've received ID with Mc%20dole or they add a space in it. Or I'll get a work email with an apostrophe but I cant use it anywhere because sites have it disabled. And I've missed my flight because I changed my ticket once to add the apostrophe and the system just broke at the gate.

Worse yet many flight companies have "you will not be able to board if your ID doesn't exactly reflect your details" but their form doesn't allow it. Even most forms for card payments don't allow it even though it's the name on my card.

[-] agilob@programming.dev 5 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

I have an apostrophe and it’s super annoying as some companies see it as a SQL injection hack and sanitize it.

My surname contains a character that's only present in the Polish alphabet. Writing my full name as is broke lots of systems, encoding, printed paperwork and even British naturalisation application from on Home Office website. My surname was part of my username back at uni, and everytime I tried to login on Windows, it would crash underlying LDAP server, logging everyone in the classroom out and forcing ICT to restart the server.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 9 minutes ago)

you will not be able to board if your ID doesn't exactly reflect your details"

Do they care about an apostrophe though? I can see any punctuation being a problem for systems.

[-] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 3 hours ago

I had to convince people to let me on board a plane because my name contain a swedish letter (å). Their computer system translated it into "aa", which then didn't match my passport.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

That one I can actually see, having an extra letter that doesn't match. Dropped punctuation or symbols (whatever the flair is called) though personally I wouldn't care.

[-] AdNecrias@lemmy.pt 39 points 5 hours ago

%20 is encoded space if I remember right, so even then they were already incorrect

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago

It sounds like maybe they sanitized the apostrophe to a space and then encoded it

[-] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago
[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

There's also the version with examples if you want to know exactly what and why it breaks.

And the git that collects all of these in one place, if you want to really nerd out.

[-] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

This is going to be bobby tables isn't it?

Edit: It wasn't?!

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 25 points 4 hours ago

I want the char 8 that makes a beep.

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