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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (21 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I really can't even begin to properly explain this because it's just so many layers of intuition. No, you absolutely cannot have a line break in your name. That's not a letter. That said, I'm fully prepared for someone to give me an example of some writing system that uses line breaks for unique purposes apart from spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unix or dos format?

Anyway, you probably need to put a backslash before it to indicate line continuation.

But wouldn't it be better to use something more traditional, such as ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

HTML is more traditional than \n?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I want the char 8 that makes a beep.

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[–] [email protected] 173 points 5 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

Edit: It wasn't?!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about an open bracket? (

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

( it will be fine with enough upvotes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Downvoting in order to bring it below @whynot's comment.

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