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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking by teddyh on Saturday November 09, 2019 @09:42PM (#21496075)
“People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎.”

— #39, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking by randomidiot123 on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:14AM (#21497046)
I'm not talking about computer systems. It is trivial to write code to handle an arbitrary UTF-8 string. I mean for his own sake, it's probably best to have a real name.
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Re:My name causes an issue with any booking by AndrewDucker on Sunday November 10, 2019 @09:48AM (#21498112)
He has a real name.

You continuing to assert that his name is in some way not real is incredibly rude.

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