Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little [...]
A couple of days ago I had some trouble picking up a package because the software that printed the shipping label fucked up a character in my name (my guess is that it took the utf-8 input and decoded it as ISO/IEC 8859-1), and the first employee in the packet shop decided it didn’t match my id document, so this is not as innocuous as it sounds.
This has happened to my wife with plane tickets. She has an é in her first name. Thankfully they let her fly but yes this can have serious consequences. She now usually just uses e but technically that doesn’t match her passport so it’s always a gamble.
A couple of days ago I had some trouble picking up a package because the software that printed the shipping label fucked up a character in my name (my guess is that it took the utf-8 input and decoded it as ISO/IEC 8859-1), and the first employee in the packet shop decided it didn’t match my id document, so this is not as innocuous as it sounds.
This has happened to my wife with plane tickets. She has an é in her first name. Thankfully they let her fly but yes this can have serious consequences. She now usually just uses e but technically that doesn’t match her passport so it’s always a gamble.