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Any notable examples apart from young children and Michael Scott that one time?
I've been compiling a list of them:
You seem to have forgotten quite a few, like
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If you just use the {Alphabetic} Unicode character class (100K code points), together with a space, hyphen, and maybe comma, that might get you close. It includes diacritics. I'm curious if anyone can think of any other non-alphabetic characters used in legal names around the world, in other scripts? I wondered about numbers, but the most famous example of that has been overturned: "Originally named X Æ A-12, the chi…
Comma or apostrophe, like in d'Alembert ? (And I have 3 in my keyboard, I'm not sure everyone is using the same one.)
Mrs. Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele only had a string length problem, but there are people with a Hawaiian ʻokina in their names. U+02BB
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#74I 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.
The government of Ireland has many IT systems that cannot handle áccénted letters. #headdesk
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I imagine the “Poland” part of the address would narrow it down somewhat.
I got curious if I can get data to answer that, and it seems so. Based on xlsx from [0], we got the following ??d? localities in Poland: 1 x Bądy, 1 x Brda, 5 x Buda, 120 x Budy, 4 x Dudy, 1 x Dydy, 1 x Gady, 1 x Judy, 1 x Kady, 1 x Kadź, 1 x Łada, 1 x Lady, 4 x Lądy, 2 x Łady, 1 x Lęda, 1 x Lody, 4 x Łódź, 1 x Nida, 1 x Reda, 1 x Redy, 1 x Redz, 74 x Ruda, 8 x Rudy, 12 x Sady, 2 x Zady, 2 x Żydy Certainly quite a lo…
Interesting! However, assuming that ASCII characters are always rendered correctly and never as "?", it seems like the only solution for "??d?" would be one of the four Łódźs?
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#76How do I allow "stępień" while detecting Zalgo-isms?
Zalgo is largely the result of abusing combining modifiers. Declare that any string with more than n combining modifiers in a row is invalid. n=1 is probably a reasonable falsehood to believe about names until someone points out that language X regularly has multiple combining modifiers in a row, at which point you can bump up N to somewhere around the maximum number of combining modifiers language X is likely to hav…
N=2 is common in Việt Nam. (vowel sound + tonal pitch)
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It's for when things go wrong. Same as with wire transfers. Nobody checks it unless there's a dispute.
The thing is though that payment networks do in fact do instant verification and it is interesting what gets verified and when. At gas stations it is very common to ask for a zip code (again US), and this is verified immediately to allow the transaction to proceed. I’ve found that when a street address is asked for there is some verification and often a match on the house number is sufficient. Zip codes are verified…
There is so many ways to write your address I always assume it it’s just the house number as well. In fact I vaguely remember that being a specific field when interacting with some old payment gateway.
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Yes, it is essential when you want to avoid doing business with customers who have invalid names.
What are “invalid names” in this context? Because, depending on the country the person was born in, a name can be literally anything, so I’m not sure what an invalid name looks like (unless you allow an `eval` of sorts).
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/327/
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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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#80Under GDPR you have the legal right for your name to be stored and processed with the correct spelling in the EU. https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Court_of_Appeal_of_Brusse...
This seems to only apply to banks.