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These things are especially hard to endure for developers, because they are so obviously stupid. I have two umlauts in my name, basically my name is completely unsuitable for the 21st century.


My girlfriend’s given name is Åsa, but actually changed it by deed poll to Aasa when she moved to the UK to stop confusing people on the phone.


My wife an I, when deciding name for our son, immediately skipped all names with "ä", which is quite common in Finnish names.


Yea, I did the same thing. Name must contain only ASCII characters and must be easily pronounceable in English where two of my requirements when naming my daughter.


As a native speaker of English from the US, my goal is to do the opposite :)


Why? Believe me, it is not fun if your name is incompatible with computer systems.


your kids will hate you. or get a name change. or both!




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