EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR

Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR by CaptainZapp on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:39AM (#38010624)

> Even better, when I was a kid and I got my first official document, the national healthcare card, the software in use did not allow a space character in the first name. The operator then decided to add a hyphen to enter the two parts of my name as separate words.

On virtually every airline ticket for which I provided my first and middle name it was just concatenated.

For example: I would provide

Frank John Sample as my name it appears as

FRANKJOHN SAMPLE on the ticket

Old reservation and ticketing systems, indeed.

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Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR by selimthegrim on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:04AM (#38011498)

Only United does this to me.

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Re:EBCDIC Is Incompatible with GDPR by rowyourboat on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:10AM (#38011933)

Yeah, I have a two-word last name. It sometimes gets smushed together by the airlines, but they're inconsistent about it.

Lufthansa for example does this in a particularly annoying way, if I give my name as LAST NAME, it will automatically smush it to LASTNAME. However, if I then want to retrieve my boarding pass, it will only find my booking when I enter my name as LASTNAME, because the look-up does not smush things automatically.

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