"What happens to people who can't write their name in Unicode?" This happens: https://www.rakuten-sec.co.jp/ITS/popAcc0034.html …
@patio11 Now we know how it feels being forced to transliterate your non-Latin-alphabet name to ASCII...https://twitter.com/patio11/status/710483535702831104 …
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@RichFelker@patio11 In several projects, I've seen cleanups like "let's fix names of contributors etc." with the intention to restore lost\ -
@RichFelker@patio11 umlauts and such. And comments were like "these are names of people, this is important". -
@RichFelker@patio11 Every time I wondered whether I supposed to write my name in Cyrillic then... -
@RichFelker@patio11 And no, I don't feel any discomfort with my name transliterated:-) -
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@RichFelker@patio11 I'm not saying that there are no problems. Even my name, not very exotic I have to say, can be translated to\ -
@RichFelker@patio11 English (Alexander) and transliterated (Aleksandr). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian … lists 11 schemes, not counting\ -
@RichFelker@patio11 a French-style system used for passports before 1997. Trying to find a Russian author in an English DB is a pain. - 2 more replies
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