cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1361025

Idk, something chill like Hakim Shaoqi… or Mikhail Sorensen

Each in different scripts (arabic et chinese) or (Cyrlic and Roman)

Eg. 少奇 حكيم (for completely foreign name) or Михаил Sörensen

  • Saigonauticon@voltage.vnEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    You’re setting them up for a lifetime of being unable to fill out online forms (because supported characters ,minimum field lengths, &c &c always seem to be implemented poorly client side or in the DB). Some required by the government or bank or airline or police. Forcing them to go through a long manual process, if it even exists.

    Then staff will make a typo in the name every time, and be locked out of their own bank account / government portal / hospital records because it doesn’t match their ID. It will take months to fix each time, and half the time they will make the same mistake again, or a different one.

    I go through this enough as an immigrant, and my name is 4 letters long and they are all on every keyboard. Having a name foreign to your country of residence sucks.

    • pingvenoEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Also, many places have restrictions on what names they will accept. For example, I work in IT at a university. We have a fairly limited set of characters because other characters are known to cause issues with vendor products. Unfortunately, we just don’t really have much of a choice.

      • Saigonauticon@voltage.vnEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Haha yeah. Supply chains for software are a mess (just like most supply chains), and the product with the worst character support will define the limits of everything else :(

        • pingvenoEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Yup. One time we had some person try changing their name to the dragon head emoji. Some systems handled it fine, but a lot of them broke in different and interesting ways. That’s what prompted the restrictions.

          • Saigonauticon@voltage.vnEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            I once knew a Thai national with a legal name, through some quirk of the system, legally became Mr. Smith.

            First name Mr.

            Last name Smith.

            Getting him through airports was always an… experience. He was a talented guy though!