✧✦Catherine✦✧payoneer thinks your name could include digits but not symbols
this is certainly a take
is there any country that allows digits in human names?
Mark Shane Hayden@whitequark some hoity toity folk who aren't Esquire or Junior might be the 3rd, 4th or 5th but may prefer to not use Roman numerals or spell it out is what I am thinking, and I some jurisdictions around the world allow it. All the systems I have worked with permit numbers for this reason. Here in Canada rules vary by province but generally require such names to use Roman numerals or spelled out in English or French.
Strangely enough although you cannot have Arabic numbers or non-roman alphabet characters in your government registered name you CAN have the following punctuation in your name in most of Canada:
! " # $ % & ’ ( ) * + , – . / : ; > = < ? [ ] \ ^ ` ´ ¸ @
Punctuation was permitted to allow more accurate representation of indigenous and foreign names within the constraints of the Roman alphabet.
Basically no system should make assumptions about names and they should really just use one big happy UTF8 field.
@msh i assumed that "3rd" would not be a part of your "name on birth certificate"
@whitequark assumptions can be hazardous. I have in fact seen a (foreign) birth certificate with "3rd" as a suffix, and on a case by case basis the number 7 or the symbol ? have been allowed (or will soon be) on birth certificates of indigenous people in recent years in Canada.
A range of symbols as well as numbers are technically supported in most registry systems in Canada although anything other than .,-' are not generally permitted in names without a HUGE amount of hassle.