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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:12:52 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   payoneer thinks your name could include digits but not symbols

   this is certainly a take

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:13:12 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     is there any country that allows digits in human names?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:38:32 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Philipp Blum

     @citrullin not like i have a choice

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     Philipp Blum (citrullin@x0r.be)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:38:34 JST Philipp Blum

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     @whitequark Payoneer is pretty wild in itself. The whole construct is puhh sus at best.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:38:47 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

     @gsuberland huh, wild.

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     Graham Sutherland / Polynomial (gsuberland@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:38:48 JST Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

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     @whitequark yes, a few US states don't prohibit it (e.g. Florida, Delaware, Hawaii, and quite a few others)

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     tef (tef@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:39:47 JST tef

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     @whitequark uk, but they're transliterated for passports

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:41:22 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • tef

     @tef incredible

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     tef (tef@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 12:46:11 JST tef

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     @whitequark meanwhile ICAO suggests any numbers should be in roman numerals, like "John Doe III"

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 13:32:23 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Mark Shane Hayden

     @msh i assumed that "3rd" would not be a part of your "name on birth certificate"

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     Mark Shane Hayden (msh@coales.co)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 13:32:24 JST Mark Shane Hayden

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     @whitequark some hoity toity folk who aren't Esquire or Junior might be the 3rd, 4th or 5th but may prefer to not use Roman numerals or spell it out is what I am thinking, and I some jurisdictions around the world allow it. All the systems I have worked with permit numbers for this reason. Here in Canada rules vary by province but generally require such names to use Roman numerals or spelled out in English or French.

     Strangely enough although you cannot have Arabic numbers or non-roman alphabet characters in your government registered name you CAN have the following punctuation in your name in most of Canada:

     ! " # $ % & ’ ( ) * + , – . / : ; > = < ? [ ] \ ^ ` ´ ¸ @

     Punctuation was permitted to allow more accurate representation of indigenous and foreign names within the constraints of the Roman alphabet.

     Basically no system should make assumptions about names and they should really just use one big happy UTF8 field.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 13:33:33 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     i'm learning that the world is even more interesting than i thought