I was too lazy to come up with another field like maybe "ZIP-code" ... mea culpa.
The intranet app I wrote back then was one for password resetting for the 10k+ users of our services inside our company.
The "name" I'm referring to, was actually our normalized, standardized and unique employee-id inside our company.
It actually only allowed /[a-z]/i (IIRC) and no space and is modelled roughly after "given-name"."family-name"
But some of my colleagues allowed users to choose other usernames in our applications, but that's another story.
I never wrote an app requesting users to register with their "real name".
Anyway you two are right and I was wrong.
> If in doubt, refer to the spec.
I did. :)
FWIW: I recently managed to skip a letter in my own family name on a flight ticket I booked online and panicked.
Was no problem at all, turned out that airlines are allowed to accept up to 3 deviations.
I think this is related to the article you and your mother° cited.
°) ;-P
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