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A similar problem happens when the name itself is only considered offensive in certain cultures, but is completely benign in the culture of the person with the name. I remember two gaming related incidents where people were blocked from making accounts; one was a south american using "negro" as his username being prevented from creating an account, even though english speakers with the username "black" are fine; the…
I've known families with surnames like Weiner and Skanky (who had a bunch of girls, I always felt sorry for them with a last name of Skanky). I imagine they must have this same issue.
Much in the same way that the pronunciation of harassment over-corrected to "hare-es-ment" for a while in the 90s (avoiding "her-ass-ment"), they led the pronunciation of their name towards Skanchy, like Scrunchy, or Crunchy before relenting.
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I actually wrote a full-stack web service to handle people's names, specifically to help avoid situations like this. My best advice: treat people's names as a potentially very long and entirely arbitrary text field. Don't assume anything without their confirmation, even if it seems obvious, because somewhere out there someone's name will violate that assumption. My research did conclude that nearly all names are belo…
http://www.historyrundown.com/top-5-people-with-the-longest-... There's a couple of people for you with legal names well past 500 characters, and that's just of Western European descent, where German-style compound words are rare.
For instance Pablo Picasso's full name is 103 characters (without whitespace): Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
When I was in elementary school, the Vice Principal's name was Mr. Butts. That was uproariously funny to my young self. Now I kind of feel bad for the guy, being the brunt of an endless stream potty humor from "clever" pre-teens..
The 2 vice principals in my Junior High at one point were James Slaughter (he did the paddling) and Seymour Butz. Butz had this huge James Earl Jones voice that just boomed down the hallways... No one made fun of him within his hearing.
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I actually wrote a full-stack web service to handle people's names, specifically to help avoid situations like this. My best advice: treat people's names as a potentially very long and entirely arbitrary text field. Don't assume anything without their confirmation, even if it seems obvious, because somewhere out there someone's name will violate that assumption. My research did conclude that nearly all names are belo…
http://www.historyrundown.com/top-5-people-with-the-longest-... There's a couple of people for you with legal names well past 500 characters, and that's just of Western European descent, where German-style compound words are rare.
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I actually wrote a full-stack web service to handle people's names, specifically to help avoid situations like this. My best advice: treat people's names as a potentially very long and entirely arbitrary text field. Don't assume anything without their confirmation, even if it seems obvious, because somewhere out there someone's name will violate that assumption. My research did conclude that nearly all names are belo…
http://www.historyrundown.com/top-5-people-with-the-longest-... There's a couple of people for you with legal names well past 500 characters, and that's just of Western European descent, where German-style compound words are rare.
Also: two letter surnames You wouldn't think a lot of sites check for a minimum name length, but they do.
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http://www.historyrundown.com/top-5-people-with-the-longest-... There's a couple of people for you with legal names well past 500 characters, and that's just of Western European descent, where German-style compound words are rare.
Worked with a guy with a really long set of names. Found out much later that what I thought was his first name (which he went by) was actually the initials of his names before the family name.
Just for fun, I wrote a quick query to pull the head from my DB.
NAME_LENGTH_CHARS, NAME_TEXT
91 'Mary Abigail KawenaʻUlaokalaniahiʻIakaikapoliopelekawahineʻAihonuaināleilehuaapele Wiggin Pukui'
85 'Upatissa Atapattu Bandaranayake Wasala Mudiyanse Ralahamilage Shirani Anshumala Bandaranayake'
83 'Wanisekara Bandaranayake Wasala Mudiyanse Ralahamilage Aluwihare Uda Walauwe Alick Aluwihare'
68 'Guido Georg Friedrich Erdmann Heinrich Adalbert Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck'
66 'Wasalakulathunga Wijekoon Mudiyanselage Duleeka Kumari Wijekoon Marapana'
65 'Clemens Erwein Heinrich Karl Bonaventura Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein'
59 'Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière'
58 'Weerasooriya Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Punchi Banda Dissanayake'
56 'Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond'
56 'Venerable Professor Kollupitiye Mahinda Sangharakkhitha Thera'
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Obligatory link to Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
41. Full adjectives and adverbs can appear in names. Some folks didn't get fancy and add prefixes and suffixes like the Europeans. You might even encounter a family name that is a whole phrase.