If there are no restrictions on your choice of legal name, the restrictions are entirely implicitly imposed by the systems which store it
Just to start with, changing your name involves filling in a form. So it has to be possible to write it. Can't be (solely) a gesture
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The same way "schemaless" databases *do* have schemas, but implicit ones defined by the applications wrapped around them
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...but if there *is* a schema for legal names, organisations can be held accountable when they fail to handle them correctly
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@qntm well I mean sure if your db is in some charset that can't encode gestures . . . -
@laxphrase I may be leaning towards having an official schema for names if only so that we can say definitively that the DBA screwed up
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