There are a frightening number of systems that donβt allow β-β, which isnβt even an edge case. A lot of people - mostly women - hyphenate their last names on marriage, rather than throw their old name away. My wife did. She legally changed her name when she came of age, and when we met and married years later she said, βI paid for money for my name; Iβm not letting it go.β (Note: I wasnβt pressuring her to take my name.) So she hyphenated it, and has come to regret the decision. She says she should have switched, or not, but the hyphen causes problems everywhere. Itβs not a legal character in a lot of systems, including some government systems.
And youβd think a simple solution is just leave out the hyphen when you put you name in, but that can also lead to problems when the system is looking for a 100% perfect match.
And good luck if they need to scan the barcode on your ID.
Then the first part is interpreted (in the US, anyway) as a middle name, not as part of the last name. I did run into a recently married woman who did that: dropped her middle name, moved her last to the middle, and used her spouseβs last name.
More commonly, places that donβt take hyphens tend to just run the two names together: Axel-Smith becomes AxelSmith.
Programmers can be really dumb.
As someone whoβs mexican I encounter that more than one would think since I have 2 last names and it gets weird sometimes since I also have a middle name.
My mom didnβt hyphenate, but she does include her maiden name when writing her full name, after her middle name. It never even occurred to me that thatβs uncommon.
I have come across a shockingly large amount of people who not only have a hyphenated last name but also have a hypenated first name! Dealing with every new computer system is like a new adventure
It boggles my mind how so many websites and platforms incorrectly say my e-mail address is βinvalidβ because it has an apostrophe in it.
No. It is NOT invalid. I have been receiving e-mails for years. You just have a shitty developer.
worst thing is, the regex to check email has been available for decades and itβs fine with apostrophies
Well, and remember: If in doubt, send them an e-mail. You probably want to do that anyways to ensure they have access to that mailbox.
You can try to use a regex as a basic sanity check, so theyβve not accidentally typed a completely different info into there, but the e-mail standard allows so many wild mail addresses, that your basic sanity check might as well be whether theyβve typed an into there.
There are many regexes that validate email, and they usually arenβt compliant with the RFC, there are some details in the very old answer on SO. So, better not validate and just send a confirmation, than restrict and lock people out, imo
There are also fringe externalities from this too. I have my momβs last name for my middle name and my dadβs for my last name. But back in the 90s, my state would erroneously handle that scenario as having no middle name and both names hyphenated for a last name. I didnβt find this out until I turned 18 and tried to get a retail job and they wouldnβt hire me until it got fixed.
First I had to go to the Dept of Health and get a new birth certificate, then I had to do the same at the social security administration for a new social security card. Hours and hours over multiple days just so I could earn minimum wage folding and selling used clothing. Ironically, the name mixup never was a problem when I did taxes previously.
