Anticipation of this comment was, in a nutshell, the reason the Han unification debate in Unicode got so acrimonious, and why lots of Japanese people carry a chip on their shoulder about it to this day.
"Sorry, grandma, I know you've been sort of attached to your name for the last 80 years, but the white folks find it inconvenient for their computer systems. Don't worry, they promise they'll make something close for you."
Many of the clients of my ex-day job are married to legacy encodings like Shift-JIS precisely because they do think that their customers and students have a "right" to having their names written correctly. (Most of them also make a total hash out of foreigner's names, which I spent a good deal of time correcting. As far as I know my office probably still uses my name as test data, since it screws up about 80% of the systems we had, and it was cheaper to work around or patch than it was to fire me.)
"Sorry, grandma, I know you've been sort of attached to your name for the last 80 years, but the white folks find it inconvenient for their computer systems. Don't worry, they promise they'll make something close for you."
Many of the clients of my ex-day job are married to legacy encodings like Shift-JIS precisely because they do think that their customers and students have a "right" to having their names written correctly. (Most of them also make a total hash out of foreigner's names, which I spent a good deal of time correcting. As far as I know my office probably still uses my name as test data, since it screws up about 80% of the systems we had, and it was cheaper to work around or patch than it was to fire me.)