Post #2869233
2024-11-24 16:19 UTC
@timsk@mastodon.social @jstepien@mastodon.social My wife's name only has ASCII characters, but one of them is a hyphen (-) and that is beyond the ability of many US businesses to understand, even though it is common. Sometimes the form accepts it but the value is "sanitized" and later they can't find her because it has the hyphen in some places but not others
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@DamonHD@mastodon.social 2024-11-24 21:34
@not2b@sfba.social @timsk@mastodon.social @jstepien@mastodon.social Oh indeed. As a teen the US hospital that I visited claimed that it had no records on me and/because the admin person REFUSED to type the actual hyphen in my surname ... just in case. Also, for years, many US sites refused to believe that I do not have a middle name, so I am N/A (or NA or Na I suppose) to them...