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Is name validation even possible?
Presumably there aren't any people with control characters in their name, for example.
Mandatory reference: https://xkcd.com/327/
Charset="WTF-8"
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#82A coworker once implemented a name validation regex that would reject his own name. It still mystifies me how much convincing it took to get him to make it less strict.
I know multiple developers who would just say "well it's their fault, they have to change name then".
I worked with an office of Germans who insisted that ASCII was sufficient. The German language uses letters that cannot be represented in ASCII.
In fairness, they mostly wanted stuff to be in English, and when necessary, to transliterate German characters into their English counterparts (in German there is a standardised way of doing this), so I can understand why they didn't see it was necessary. I just never understood why I, as the non-German, was forever the one trying to convince them that Germans would probably prefer to use their software in German...
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#83grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz
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#84I 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.
Did you actually get banks to print that on your credit card?
I’m impressed, most I know struggle with any kind of non-[A-Z]!
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#85Re: Charset="WTF-8"
#86I 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
I worked for an Irish company that didn't support ' in names. Did get fixed eventually, but sigh...
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#87grzegorz brzęczyszczykiewicz
Looks ok in my language: Gřegoř Bženčiščikievič
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#88Situations like these regularly make me feel ashamed about being a software developer.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
At American gas stations, if you have a Canadian credit card, you type in 00000 because Canadians don't have ZIP codes.
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#90Under 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.
I wouldn't be surprised if that created kafkaesque problems with other institutions that require name to match the bank account exactly, and break/reject non-ASCII at the same time.