Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or...
by yorwba on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:47AM
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The machine-readable part of the German passport uses this DIN standard, so to avoid having to explain German orthography to some suspicious border guard, you'd better make sure you use it.
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or...
by germanier on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @05:23AM
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But when you get a US visa, the name in both the visual and machine redeable part is written with ä replaced by a, so you end up with three different spellings in your passport. And then you get a Russian visa, where they use a pretty strange transliteration into the Cyrillic alphabet (not the one I would use) and then transform that back to ASCII in the machine readable zone for variant 5. And so on.