• trustnoone@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    I have an apostrophe and it’s super annoying as some companies see it as a SQL injection hack and sanitize it.

    So I’ve received ID with Mc%20dole or they add a space in it. Or I’ll get a work email with an apostrophe but I cant use it anywhere because sites have it disabled. And I’ve missed my flight because I changed my ticket once to add the apostrophe and the system just broke at the gate.

    Worse yet many flight companies have “you will not be able to board if your ID doesn’t exactly reflect your details” but their form doesn’t allow it. Even most forms for card payments don’t allow it even though it’s the name on my card.

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      4 months ago

      I have an apostrophe and it’s super annoying as some companies see it as a SQL injection hack and sanitize it.

      My surname contains a character that’s only present in the Polish alphabet. Writing my full name as is broke lots of systems, encoding, printed paperwork and even British naturalisation application on Home Office website. My surname was part of my username back at uni, and everytime I tried to login on Windows, it would crash underlying LDAP server, logging everyone in the classroom out and forcing ICT to restart the server.

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        everytime I tried to login on Windows, it would crash underlying LDAP server, logging everyone in the classroom out and forcing ICT to restart the server.

        Now that’s the way to do it! Make it everybody’s problem, not just yours.

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      4 months ago

      you will not be able to board if your ID doesn’t exactly reflect your details"

      Do they care about an apostrophe though? I can see any punctuation being a problem for systems.

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        4 months ago

        I had to convince people to let me on board a plane because my name contain a swedish letter (å). Their computer system translated it into “aa”, which then didn’t match my passport.

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            4 months ago

            No, my passport has my real name of course, with “å”. In the airport system and on the boarding pass my name was spelled with “aa”.