In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/16/2007
at 06:25 PM, "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>IMHO this is partially on topic. People provide strange names
>(off-topic) and hwoe they interact with computer systems (ON-TOPIC).
>AFAIK there is in some countries *official standard* for people's
>names.
That only works for systems targetted to a single country.
> It solves majority of the problems:
And infringes on personal liberty, especially in countries with
multiple languages. It's certainly unacceptable in a multicultural
society such as what the USA nominally has.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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