I was too lazy to come up with another field like maybe "ZIP-code" ... mea culpa.

The intranet app I wrote back then was one for password resetting for the 10k+ users of our services inside our company.

The "name" I'm referring to, was actually our normalized, standardized and unique employee-id inside our company.

It actually only allowed /[a-z]/i (IIRC) and no space and is modelled roughly after "given-name"."family-name"

But some of my colleagues allowed users to choose other usernames in our applications, but that's another story.

I never wrote an app requesting users to register with their "real name".

Anyway you two are right and I was wrong.

> If in doubt, refer to the spec.

I did. :)

FWIW: I recently managed to skip a letter in my own family name on a flight ticket I booked online and panicked.

Was no problem at all, turned out that airlines are allowed to accept up to 3 deviations.

I think this is related to the article you and your mother° cited.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) ;-P

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PS: Names_of_Sun_Yat-sen

In reply to Re^4: Any security holes? by LanX
in thread Any security holes? by Limbomusic

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