Comment on EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
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.
scottyjoe9@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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.