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Jan Stępień Nov 24, 2024

I made a thing. Please do not hesitate to point me in the direction of more forms to fill. https://wtf-8.xn--stpie-k0a81a.com

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Tim Nov 24, 2024

@jstepien it's goddamn frustrating isn't it, not too mention insulting.

I see the Co-operative Bank here in the UK have made zero progress on this since I stumbled on it ~10 years ago. 🙄

To save you the trouble, I just got two steps into the "open new account" process before this happened: "The name entered is invalid."
https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/products/bank-accounts/current-account/

Apply for a Current Account Online | The Co-operative Bank

Apply for a current account online. No monthly fee and the option to apply for an overdraft. Learn what you need to open a standard current account here.

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Joe ❌👑Nov 24, 2024

@timsk @jstepien My wife's name only has ASCII characters, but one of them is a hyphen (-) and that is beyond the ability of many US businesses to understand, even though it is common. Sometimes the form accepts it but the value is "sanitized" and later they can't find her because it has the hyphen in some places but not others

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DamonHD Nov 24, 2024

@not2b @timsk @jstepien Oh indeed. As a teen the US hospital that I visited claimed that it had no records on me and/because the admin person REFUSED to type the actual hyphen in my surname ... just in case.

Also, for years, many US sites refused to believe that I do not have a middle name, so I am N/A (or NA or Na I suppose) to them...

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Tim

@DamonHD @not2b @jstepien You remind me of a story my dad told about an American friend called R.B. (I forget the surname). In a desperate attempt to have a form accepted, he wrote what he thought were clearly explanatory notes, but his ID came back in the name of "Ronly Bonly", which still makes me giggle.