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How do I allow "stępień" while detecting Zalgo-isms?
I think we based it on Lodash’ deburr source code. If deburr’s output is a-z and some common symbols, it passes (and we store the original value)
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The name of the city has the L with stroke (pronounced as a W), so it’s Łódź.
And the transliteration in this case is so far from the original that it's barely recognisable for me (three out of four characters are different and as a native I perceive Ł as a fully separate character, not as a funny variation of L)
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Yes, it is essential when you want to avoid doing business with customers who have invalid names.
What if your customer is the artist formerly known as Prince or even X Æ A-12 Musk?
Musk: Tell Elon to get over his narcissism enough to not use his children as his own vanity projects. This isn't just an Elon problem, many people treat children as vanity projects to fuel their own narcissism. That's not what children are for. Give him a proper name. (and then proceed to enter "X Æ A-12" into your database, it's just text...)
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Is name validation even possible?
Don't validate names, use transliteration to make them safe for postal services (or whatever). In SQL this is COLLATE, in the command line you can use uconv: >echo "'Lódź'" | uconv -f "UTF-8" -t "UTF-8" -x "Latin-ASCII" >'Lodz'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Celje
echo "Čelje" | uconv -f "UTF-8" -t "UTF-8" -x "Latin-ASCII"
> "Celje"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celje
(i mean... we do have postal numbers just for problems like this, but both Štefan and Stefan are not-so-uncommon male names over here, so are Jozef and Jožef, etc.)
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The name of the city has the L with stroke (pronounced as a W), so it’s Łódź.
And the transliteration in this case is so far from the original that it's barely recognisable for me (three out of four characters are different and as a native I perceive Ł as a fully separate character, not as a funny variation of L)
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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 unders…
Hah, fair enough. I think it was an abstract question to me, so I was looking for the technically correct answer. Practical question for him, so he gave the practical answer.
Side note: not a bad way to skirt surveillance though.
A name like “stępień” will without a doubt have many ambiguous spellings across different intelligence gathering systems (RUMINT, OSINT, …). Americans will probably spell it as “Stefen” or “Steven” or “Stephen”, especially once communicated over phone.
Under 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 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.
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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.