Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)

Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by Dalewyn on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:21AM (#38938103)

The kana field is for indicating how the name is read (remember, kanji can be read in many ways), and consequently how the name should be indexed and sorted inside databases and other data stores.

If the field wanted only either hiragana or katakana (remember, it wants a simple reading guide) and complained, I'm not necessarily surprised.

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Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by bschwindHN on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:35AM (#38938211)

I'm specifically talking about the kanji field, not the kana field. If your name doesn't have kanji (which mine doesn't), you can really only enter katakana. And I've encountered forms which refuse katakana for that field, and which also refuses half-width or full-width roman characters.

What do you do at that point?

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Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by Dalewyn on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:37AM (#38938232)

I would just enter hiragana and move on with my day, and if that doesn't work I would just pick arbitrary kanji using standard readings to roughly spell out my name (this practice is known as 当て字, ateji).

It's not my problem they have to deal with malformed data if that's all they will accept.

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