My last name contains an ü and it has been consistenly horrible.
* When I try to preemptively replace ü with ue many institutions and companies refuse to accept it because it does not match my passport
* Especially in France, clerks try to emulate ü with the diacritics used for the trema e, ë. This makes it virtually impossible to find me in a system again
* Sometimes I can enter my name as-is and there seems to be no problem, only for some other system to mangle it to � or or a box. This often triggers error downstream I have no way of fixing
* Sometimes, people print a u and add the diacritics by hand on the label. This is nice, but still somehow wrong.
I wonder what the solution is. Give up and ask people to consistenly use a ascii-only name? Allow everybody 1000+ unicode characters as a name and go off that string? Officially change my name?
* When I try to preemptively replace ü with ue many institutions and companies refuse to accept it because it does not match my passport
* Especially in France, clerks try to emulate ü with the diacritics used for the trema e, ë. This makes it virtually impossible to find me in a system again
* Sometimes I can enter my name as-is and there seems to be no problem, only for some other system to mangle it to � or or a box. This often triggers error downstream I have no way of fixing
* Sometimes, people print a u and add the diacritics by hand on the label. This is nice, but still somehow wrong.
I wonder what the solution is. Give up and ask people to consistenly use a ascii-only name? Allow everybody 1000+ unicode characters as a name and go off that string? Officially change my name?