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Piskvorrr | 8 months ago

Once you start taxatively naming "these are the Only Blessed Ranges," you'll be bitten by the usual brouhaha "email address ends with .[a-z]{2,3}". We all know how it went, and ".[a-z]{2,4}" didn't cut it, either, not even in 2000.

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nuc1e0n|8 months ago

To add to the complexity, not all Chinese characters in use for names are representable in unicode. Perhaps at some point legal institutions must just define what the list of characters is that people can have as part of their name as listed on documentation. This reminds me of that 'what programmers believe about names' article from a while back.

pepa65|8 months ago

If so, I think they would just need to be added to Unicode. Do you have an estimate how many are missing?

bmn__|8 months ago

> not all Chinese characters in use for names are representable in unicode

Why? How do you come to this conclusion?