What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your legal name

Re:What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your le... by Deathmax on Saturday April 06, 2024 @06:36PM (#39956294)

I would check what's encoded on the machine readable zone on your passport, as I understand it, the only valid characters are A-Z, 0-9, and < as a field separator.

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Re:What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your le... by NovemberWhiskey on Saturday April 06, 2024 @07:09PM (#39956519)

In the MRZ, < is not a field separator; it's a filler character. So if you're Lisa Marie Presley (and "Lisa Marie" is your first name) then you probably have "PRESLEY, LISA MARIE" in the VIZ (human-readable part) and "PRESLEY<<LISA<MARIE" in the MRZ.

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Re:What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your le... by kiwijamo on Saturday April 06, 2024 @07:51PM (#39956783)

Indeed, the dash in my name becomes a < in the machine readable part. The field separator is indeed double <<.

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