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Discussion on: Changing your name is a hard unsolved problem in Computer Science

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Luke Inglis

get interfaces to accept people's real names from the beginning.

My wife and I just had our third child and turns out you can't even use an accent on a letter for a birth certificate in the US. Like literally the legal associated with her SSN is spelled differently than it will ever be spelled in 'real life'.

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Skye Shaw

Many national governments have various problems dealing with peoples' names. It's quite common.

This is nice: github.com/patch/i18n-testing/blob...