As a fellow Christophe, I too have seen this all my life.
It’s comical that so many companies and systems just decided “No one will ever have a name longer than 10 characters, right?”
South Korea actually has a law that nobody can have names longer than 5 symbols since a traditional name is never longer than that and it’s all their systems are setup to handle.
Every substitute teacher I ever had called me Christophe thanks to the school district’s character limit.
As a fellow Christophe, I too have seen this all my life.
It’s comical that so many companies and systems just decided “No one will ever have a name longer than 10 characters, right?”
It’s wild considering it was one of the most popular names for a while. There were 3 other Christophe’s in my class at one point.
South Korea actually has a law that nobody can have names longer than 5 symbols since a traditional name is never longer than that and it’s all their systems are setup to handle.