Most US websites I deal with throw a random error when I give them my name. And it's not even weird, just one non-ascii character. Especially annoying since they always say something to the effect of "Write your legal name here, exactly as it's on your documents, do check twice it's the same".
I know sometimes it's because of legacy ASCII protocols in finance/airlines (but sometimes it's just bad databases/regexes). I know how to fix it, but please just don't say in the error message that my name is "invalid".
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It goes both ways. Some US sites don’t allow spaces or hyphens in given names.
Most US websites I deal with throw a random error when I give them my name. And it's not even weird, just one non-ascii character. Especially annoying since they always say something to the effect of "Write your legal name here, exactly as it's on your documents, do check twice it's the same".
I know sometimes it's because of legacy ASCII protocols in finance/airlines (but sometimes it's just bad databases/regexes). I know how to fix it, but please just don't say in the error message that my name is "invalid".