Software folks! Considering putting a validator on the name fields in your personal info forms? Have you instead considered walking directly into the sea? The number of times that I have been told that my last name is wrong is ridiculous, and each time makes me hate myself more!

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@makyo also the time saved by not "validating" that field can be used to instead make sure you properly support Unicode characters beyond basic ASCII

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