| ▲ | Muromec 3 hours ago |
| I can be called what I want and in fact I have perfectly reasonable name that doesn't fit neither ASCII nor FN+LN convention. The thing is, your website accepting whatever utf8 blob my name can be serialized to today, without actually understanding it, makes my life worse, not better. |
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| ▲ | hobs 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| No, it allows an exact representation of your name, it doesn't do anything to your life. If you dont like your name, either change it or go complain to your parents. They might tell you that you cultural reference point is more important than some person being able to read your name off of a computer screen. If you want to store a phonetic name for the destination speaker that's not a bad idea, but a name is a name is a name. It is your unique identifier, do not munge it. |
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| ▲ | Muromec an hour ago | parent [-] | | But it does affect my life in a way you refuse to understand. That's the problem -- there isn't a true canonical representation of a name (any name really) that fits all practical purposes. Storing a bag of bytes to display back to user is the easiest of practical purposes and suggesting the practice that solve that is worse than rejecting Stępień, it's refusal to understand complexities, that leads to eventually doing the wrong thing and failing your user without even telling them. >It is your unique identifier, do not munge it. It's not a good identifier either. Nobody uses names as identifiers at any scale that matters for computers. You can't assume they don't have collisions, you can't tell whether two bags of bytes identify the same person or two different, they aren't even immutable and sometimes are accidentally mutable. | | |
| ▲ | soco an hour ago | parent [-] | | Then where is the problem? If the support can read Polish they will pronounce your name properly, if they're from India they will mess it up, why should we have different expectations? Nobody will identify you by name anyway, they will ask how to call you (chatbots do this already) and then use for proper identification all kind of ids and pins and whatnot. So we are talking here about a complexity that nobody actually needs, not even you. So let the name be saved and displayed in the nice native way, and you as programmer make sure you don't go Bobby Tables with the strings. |
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