Originally Posted by
squawk
This reminds me of an excellent blog post by Patrick McKenzie from 2010, on "
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names", in which he enumerates a number commonly held incorrect assumptions regarding names.
It's well worth a read, especially if you work in technology or with IT systems, and/or in an international environment where you get many different cultural 'standards' (or lack of) regarding names…
A bit OT (will bring it back on topic) but I read a great article about unfortunate passengers whose surname is ‘Null’ - this causes a lot of problems making it almost impossible to book anything online.
My daughter has a hyphenated given name, she used to worry but now just omits the hyphen, job done!