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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Just getting started on answering this question probably necessitates an organisation as large and complex as the Unicode Consortium
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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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The moment it's declared that names can be at most 1000 characters long, someone gives their kid a 1001-char name. In protest! And why not!
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@qntm At which point I am duty bound to post a link to this https://xkcd.com/327/1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@headfirstonly Tables was famously reticent about his fame. "You want to ask my mother," the 32-year-old said in a rare interview
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