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Re:My computer has an underscore in its name, and I have tro... by nav on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @07:31AM (#40499654)
A funny story is that my father's legal first name is Nil. He moved to the US in the late 70s. Computer systems in the 80s would register the input as null and he had to then temporarily change his name to include his middle name. Corner cases are fun.
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Re:My computer has an underscore in its name, and I have tro... by robin_reala on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @07:46AM (#40499734)
He’s not the only one with a problematic name: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
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Re:My computer has an underscore in its name, and I have tro... by nav on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @08:04AM (#40499845)
Fwded this to my dad, thanks!
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Re:My computer has an underscore in its name, and I have tro... by jbn on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @02:33PM (#40503944)
how about a first name with a dash in it (compound first names are very very common in France... Jean-Pierre, Jean-Bernard, Pierre-Alexandre, etc...) ?
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