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That annoys me on lots of US-based websites. ä, ö, ü etc. seem to be well supported, but my name contains a rarer character/accent combination(still not that rare and very common in lots of places) and I frequently have the issue that american websites tell me that my name is invalid.

European websites never bother me about it, of course :)

Doesn't bother me that much but I've had moments where a service told me that "Your name MUST match the name on your ID", only to then complain that I can't use a certain character. Which is present on my ID. Well.



Fortunately it's only my address, but "København Ø" fails even on websites in Europe sometimes.

The postman understands "Kbenhavn", "K~#benhavn >&" and so on.

Very occasionally some address verification thing can't match my address, as one side or the other within their system is corrupting it.


Norway has a village that's just named "Å"...


> I've had moments where a service told me that "Your name MUST match the name on your ID", only to then complain that I can't use a certain character. Which is present on my ID. Well.

In a just world, the website would be taken offline at once, and kept off until fixed.




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