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Re:The lack of a case against Python 3 by Xylakant on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @09:22AM (#13063156)
which seems to be the case in switzerland: If you want to apply for swiss citizenship, your name needs to be compatible with ISO-8859-15 because the central registry does not support unicode: https://www.dasmagazin.ch/2016/09/02/ic-bin-kein-schweizer/ (sorry, german only, which seems oddly apt)
Re:The lack of a case against Python 3 by vuanotinn on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:01AM (#13063393)
That sounds like a good way of keeping undesirable people out without being accused of "racism"
Re:The lack of a case against Python 3 by Grishnakh on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @04:36PM (#13066454)
I don't know of any languages that don't have a Latinized written form: Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic, etc. all have Latinized forms.