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Becca Royal-GordonIf you ever want to find out how much software is just crap, try having a hyphenated last name.
(If you're wondering, this is the last name I was born with. I seriously considered dropping half of it when I changed my first name, but I decided that having a globally unique name was just too useful to give up.)
What Will Danielle Code after WWDC?@beccadax Iāmā¦ Iām so sorry, B-e-c-c-a
Slava Pestov@beccadax What happens if you use an em-dash instead of a hyphen
@slava It'd probably take down the entire Mastercard payment network.
Lemniscate@beccadax @slava I saw this and had to laugh because years ago I helped troubleshoot a problem with card transactions breaking at a credit union and it turned out to be a ātypographic apostropheā being sent in a merchant name. Non-ASCII character and some old systems really couldnāt deal with it. We were on the processor side of this in the transaction chain and when we figured out what was going on, we were left to wonder how many (what we thought were) āsimple declinesā were actually punctuation and accent marks in cardholder and merchant names over the years. To make it more convoluted, we werenāt even the party putting the merchant name in the message, it was done by someone upstream of us.
@Lemniscate @slava The original post was prompted by a website just clearing a credit card info form with no explanation when I tried to submit it because there was a hyphen in my name.
Pat (she/her)LBT: Or more than one middle name.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)@beccadax I knew someone who left a job in part because his health insurance got cancelled every month because the software didn't know what to do with the apostrophe (an O' name).
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It feels like all I did in my 20s was write name and address parsers.
It feels like all I did in my 20s was write name and address parsers.
Gersande La FlĆØche@beccadax The "ĆØ" in my last name frequently breaks software and sometimes it does matter like that time I was flying through America and Europe and they freaked because my name wasn't the same as on my passport š« š« š«
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Tom Neuhold-Huber@beccadax so true. š
pun gent@beccadax I have a hyphenated first name, my life includes hilarious events like having the state of Washington arbitrarily change my name for me, because the digital records they used to print a certified copy of my birth certificate didn't support dashes, so it was silently dropped instead.
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