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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by bjoli on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:05AM (#24184174)
I was onced refused entry into a country for 6 hours because of different spellings of my last name. The (apparently quite amateur) travel agency had sent my last name written using OE instead of Ö, whereas all the documents relating to my identity use Ö (or if it was the other way around).
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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by dusted on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:34AM (#24186219)
We thought on this specifically when naming our son, one with no special characters, a pure clean ASCII string like mom used to cook them.
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