My new name doesn't have a middle name yet, so I'm accepting suggestions on what I could adopt that'd break as many systems as possible.

Obvious answers:
* null
* an emoji
* U+FFFD �
* half of a unicode surrogate pair
* EICAR
* some kind of prompt injection
* the entirety of DOOM, base64 encoded
* an illegal prime
* the source to decss
* 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

@foone from experience, probably a hyphen. especially in a middle name.
@imbl yeah one of my sisters has a hyphenated last name, and it causes no end of issues

@foone @imbl throw an O' in there (with capital afterwards) for good measure to place yourself squarely among the ranks of the absolutely bog-standard centuries old name traditions that are regularly used in multiple cultures but somehow kryptonite for text handling systems.

I think the funniest might be the literal missing-character box codepoint. Everyone will assume that it's actually some obscure glyph their system can't handle, and whenever you write it out on paper on a form that uses little boxes for each letter, you'll just be drawing a rectangle inside the rectangle and whoever has to enter the data will be stumped.

@tiotasram @foone @imbl Alice O'Hyphen Averlong. No, even better: Alice O-Apostrophe Averlong