Every time I hear a government assume two people are different because of String.equals() implementation issues I want to cry.
@naofumi It is indeed a long topic. We occasionally have problems with it for e.g. my wife, who is Japanese, because she took my last name.
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@naofumi This has caused organizations doing naive string comparisons on names across data sources to believe the data reflects 「全く別の人」. -
@patio11 If 「読み方」 is in the database, we use that to rough first check for possible matches. Then we do a manual confirmation. - 4 more replies
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@naofumi Some organizations put her name in romaji because mine is, while some katakanize our family name and leave her first name in kanji.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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