Originally Posted by William S

Okey so I returned from HNL back to OSL via LAX and CDG. At the TSA checkpoint I showed him my boarding pass and my passport. I have some Norwegian letters in my name (æ. ø and å) which are in my passport. Of course my boarding pass displayed English transliterations of those (ae for æ and oe for o). The ID checker thought some letters were missing and called over an assistant. She said okey only some letters missing, let it go. But no letters were missing at all. In LAX they did not say anything about that. At HNL they also were running around taking samples from hands (probably explosives). Clearly many TSOs do not know anything about foreign letters.