Comment by matsemann

I have one in my name, and living in Norway I would've thought we were better at handling "special" characters in names, given that people here are named Bjørn and Åse and Kjærsti. Like, old legacy systems often handle those names, and I would assume they then used Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) which have æøå and also ü. But for some reason my name has been stuck in loads of systems growing up. Things like porting my phone number not working because the system borked on my name. Or not being able to order something because the system asking for a credit report then jumbled my name so they got nothing in return. Or just because "name doesn't match the one on the card", but it's a system along the way stripping my name. Sigh.