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Y'all need to learn how to sanitize your inputs!
A line break is a non-printable character. So it would only work in the scope of electronic storage. The minute it hits other media, the line break character is subject to how that media handles it’s presence, and then it is lost permanently from that step forward.
Plus, many input forms make use of validation that will just trim anything that isn’t a character or number, removing the line break character.
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.
If only Sweden invaded the rest of the world instead of Russia... *le sigh*
Eh, if they went imperial they would be subject to imperial needs leading to all the usual imperial problems.
Should have went with Adolf Olivernipples
Good luck with that.
Most computer nayetems will trim the crap out of that name, the white spaces like space, tab, \r and \n will be gone by the time it's in the database
Not legal in Canada. Your legal name must use Latin characters only. This is a sore point for indigenous people.
Hello my name is JohnDoe. My name only contains Latin characters, no spaces allowed.
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.
"John Doe" vs ["John", "Doe"] vs {"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"}
console.log(Object.values(name).join("\n"));
The Romans also had spaces in between words
I was under the impression that that was actually a medieval invention
But did they have lowercase?
EDIT: Hello my name is JOHN DOE. Only latin characters allowed
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?
Blank spaces arent characters by definition as they're the space that allows the letters to exist
Deep. Is Python a form of Jazz?
If elected president my first order of business will be to make all birth certificates fully unicode compatible.
(ノ-_-)ノ~┻━┻ Miller
I govenment site I visited recenly made a point of how it accepts emojis in passwords!
How is your son X Æ A-12?
Screw everything about Elon musk
"It sounds like a password"
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.
I have an apostrophe
Scottish/Irish?
some companies see it as a SQL injection hack and sanitize it.
Which kind of apostrophe?
A straight apostrophe, fine - that can and does get used in valid SQL injection attacks. I would be disgusted at any input form that didn’t sanitize that.
But a curly apostrophe? Nothing should be filtering a curly apostrophe, as it has no function or use within SQL. So if you learn how to bring that up in alt codes (Windows, specifically), Key combos (Mac) or dead keys (Linux), as well as direct Unicode codes for most any Win/Mac/*Nix platform, you should be golden.
Unless the developer of that input form was a complete moron and made extra-tight validation.
Plus, knowing the inputs for a lot of extended UTF-8 characters not found on a normal keyboard is also a wee bit of a typing superpower.
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 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.
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