• troybot [he/him]@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    And you’d think a simple solution is just leave out the hyphen when you put you name in, but that can also lead to problems when the system is looking for a 100% perfect match.

    And good luck if they need to scan the barcode on your ID.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      Then the first part is interpreted (in the US, anyway) as a middle name, not as part of the last name. I did run into a recently married woman who did that: dropped her middle name, moved her last to the middle, and used her spouse’s last name.

      More commonly, places that don’t take hyphens tend to just run the two names together: Axel-Smith becomes AxelSmith.

      Programmers can be really dumb.