Every year at around this time I do a quick sweep of family finances, which often involves working with a new Japanese financial firm, which means I get a quick object lesson in http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ … Today's example is a Kafkaesque nightmare.
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Me: "McKenzie is, in fact, 8 characters." System B: "Your first name can't be blank." "McKenzie P." "You foreigners suck at math." "McKenzi P" "One more time." "McKenz P" "OK now give me that in roman characters." "McKenz P" "You included insufficient vowels. Try again."
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One of these years I might have to incorporate a Japanese LLC (合同会社 technically) just to deal with this. Step 1: Register [Patio11 G.K.] (G.K. = LLC here) Step 2: Hello bank / insurance / government agency I need the corporate version of this form. Step 3: It works.
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*sigh* I forgot that my name has to be on all sorts of paperwork for Ruriko and the kids and, while corporate persons do get lots of leeway in how they spell their names, they can't marry natural persons yet. Drats, foiled again.
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"Why don't you just change your name?" Aside from the "I already have one perfectly good name and a Japanese transliteration of it which, in a just world, would actually work" that buys me a new genre of "Oh that can't possibly ACTUALLY be your name" tweet, for rest of life.
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I integrated with an electronic medical records system that does that, but 31 chars and a comma between names. Arcane and frustrating. Made for amusing unit tests though.
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I can’t even fit my surname in 8 charsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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