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#41

I have an 'æ' in my middle name (formally secondary first name because history reasons). Usually I just don't use it, but it's always funny when a payment form instructs me to write my full name exactly as written on my credit card, and then goes on to tell me my name is invalid.

I live in Łódź. Love receiving packages addressed to ??d? :)

I wonder how many of those packages end up in Vada, Italy. Or Cody, Wyoming. Or Buda, Texas...

Re: Charset="WTF-8"

#43
A system not supporting non-latin characters in personal names is pitiful, but a system telling the user that they have an invalid name is outright insulting.

Re: Charset="WTF-8"

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I live in Łódź. Love receiving packages addressed to ??d? :)

I wonder how many of those packages end up in Vada, Italy. Or Cody, Wyoming. Or Buda, Texas...

I imagine the “Poland” part of the address would narrow it down somewhat.

Re: Charset="WTF-8"

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Is name validation even possible?

Presumably there aren't any people with control characters in their name, for example.

Challenge accepted, I'll try to put a backspace and a null byte in my firstborn's name. Hope I don't get swatted for crashing the government servers.

Re: Charset="WTF-8"

#46

I have an 'æ' in my middle name (formally secondary first name because history reasons). Usually I just don't use it, but it's always funny when a payment form instructs me to write my full name exactly as written on my credit card, and then goes on to tell me my name is invalid.

As you may be aware, the name field for credit card transactions is rarely verified (perhaps limited to North America, not sure).

Often I’ll create a virtual credit card number and use a fake name, and virtually never have had a transaction declined. Even if they are more aggressively asking for a street address, giving just the house number often works. This isn’t a deep cover but gives a little bit of a anonymity for marketing.

Re: Charset="WTF-8"

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is name validation even possible?

Presumably there aren't any people with control characters in their name, for example.

Watch as someone names themselves the bell character, “^G” (ASCII code 7) [1]

When they meet people, they tell them their name is unpronounceable, it’s the sound of a PC speaker from the late 20th century, but you can call them by their preferred nickname “beep”.

In paper and online forms they are probably forced to go by the name “BEL”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character

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