If there are no restrictions on your choice of legal name, the restrictions are entirely implicitly imposed by the systems which store it
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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
"You can't handle people named 'Null'. This violates EU law. Fix system or you may no longer sell flights here. You have 28 days."
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Must names be expressible in any kind of binary encoding? Must they be textual? Is pictorial/spoken acceptable? What about sign names?
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Just getting started on answering this question probably necessitates an organisation as large and complex as the Unicode Consortium
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@qntm the tricky part is keeping the schemas from being designed by white monolinguals -
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@velartrill you are not kidding, "cache invalidation and naming people"
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@qntm i read this as "You can't handle people named Null. Handling them would violate EU law" which i don't think would be far off...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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