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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"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."
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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To say nothing of the anonymous
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@qntm What if a person is a nameless collection of named components? Their brain has a name, as does their circulatory system, their skin... -
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@qntm what about maximum lengths? Am I able to change my name to the full text of Lord of the Rings? Or the second trillion digits of pi? -
@davidmanheim I put it to you that an explicit maximum length would at least be preferable to a wide range of implicit ones
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