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Old Jun 27, 2009 | 9:22 pm
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Originally Posted by ralfp
What about spaces? I don't think the machine readable part can handle a first name of "Blah Blah".

This is an issue with Korean names. Take 김정일 (Kim Jong Il). "Jong Il" is the first name, but machine readable passports would make "Il" the middle name. I guess this is why many Koreans use hyphenated first names.
Yeah, my wife has the same problem, although with Chinese. Since she didn't have a middle name she converted her last name to a middle name and took my name as a last name, so now by English appearances she has 4 names. It does all sorts of weird things to systems expecting her to have the usual 3.
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