Ted MacNEIL wrote:
If a customer has "incompatible" name - *not your problem*. The person
should provide how to record his(her) name to standard format.
I disagree.
That is just another version of making the user conform to IT (a
service), rather than IT conforming to the user.
Of course you can disagree, but you can complain about government
regulations, not on banking system. You can complain TO government, not
to your bank. It is convenient for application developers (and whole
IT): they should conform to the standard, no less, no more.
Obviously, the standard should be flexible enough to accept vast
majority of possible names, including some set of foreign ones.
However there're names unacceptable to given system. For example, in
Poland we don't use 'X' letter, but we accept it because of foreign
names. But I'm pretty sure your system cannot accept any russian name,
because they use completely different alphabet (cyryllic). Russian *have
to* transliterate their names i.e in their passports.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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