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People who have the wrong kinds of names pay a heavy price for this kind of thing. You gave an absurd example (15 names), but much more common cases tend to break. For example, my wife's legal name has a hyphen in it. It is astounding how many web sites cannot cope with this. Or worse, accept the correct name in one place and not in another, or accept the entry and then report a name mismatch later when they "sanitize the input".

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