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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Must names be expressible in any kind of binary encoding? Must they be textual? Is pictorial/spoken acceptable? What about sign names?
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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Plus, we treat constraints as challenges. No matter what schema you choose, it will always be possible to invent a name outside of it
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@qntm@FakeUnicode We already have an encoding system that can be used to express all legal names in live languages. -
@qntm@FakeUnicode (And most dead ones)
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