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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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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"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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@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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