Comment by sensanaty
4 months ago
I never know whether to use the ć in my name when signing up for systems that require full legal names (banks et al.). Even my own country's gov't sites break when I input my real name, but refuses to accept the name without the ć. It was a real pain in the ass when I had to make an appointment and go in to some dingy office at 6am because their system doesn't support one of the most common letters in Serbian names. There's like a 90% chance the dude who made the system has a similar name with a ć or č in it even!
Surprisingly this has never broken for me in either Indonesia or the Netherlands though, whenever I've put the ć in it just converted it to a regular C which is perfectly acceptable for me (for context, it's pretty easy to guess which C is actually a ć or č in Serbian, similarly for s/š or z/ž, so seeing text without the proper diacritics doesn't really matter in most cases). My Dutch ID even correctly has the ć!
My first name starts with the 'letter' (digraph, actually [0]) IJ.
I have a standard email I send to companies not honoring the only correct Dutch spelling of my name and/or initials.
The GDPR makes it mandatory for companies to correctly process your personal details so while it can take a while sometimes it's gotten a lot better over the years.
In your case (assuming you live in the EU) there's plenty of precedent to send a standard email like that too. Even banks have been forced kicking and screaming to fix it [1].
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJ_(digraph) [1]: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with...