EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

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• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • scottyjoe9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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