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There are people who insist on a particular capitalisation of their names (i.e., all lower-case, irrespective of grammar rules) which is surely no different from using characters outside the Unicode set.

I'd be very careful telling people what "rights" they have around their names.

EDIT: you can't really control what other people call you but you certainly can control what you call yourself.




"which is surely no different from using characters outside the Unicode set" - not when you are thinking in terms of making a program that will support it. A program will happily render Mr bob smith's name in lower-case if that's how he entered it. But Ms non-Unicode-squiggle is out of luck, and I don't have much sympathy.


Yea, how could 80 year old Ms non-Unicode-squiggle's parents have been so cruel and thoughtless that they didn't check the unicode spec before naming their child. Screw them and their lack of foresight and time machines.


I'm sort of wondering how Ms non-Unicode-squiggle manages to type her non-Unicode-squiggle into the form field in the first place.


There are other encoding systems than Unicode out there.


Sure; I was reacting to the specific concept of a "non-Unicode-squiggle", implying that the character has no known mechanism for encoding it (i.e. it's not simply an SJIS squiggle) and would likely have to be submitted as a custom bitmap/vector path. That's a good place to draw the line.


The whole point is that there are characters in use in certain languages that have accepted mechanisms for encoding in some non-Unicode character encoding system used for that language, but not in Unicode.




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