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on Saturday May 12 2018, @01:32AM
from the sorry-surnames-must-have-between-8-and-10-letters dept.
from the sorry-surnames-must-have-between-8-and-10-letters dept.
"A Thai Airways passenger said he was charged a $94 fee at the airport for a name change because the online booking system would not let him type his full name.
The passenger, whose name was not shared, said when he went to purchase his ticket on the Thai Airways website, his full last name would not fit in the name field. The name field only allows 25 characters for surname. The passenger tried shortening his name on the website and was finally able to buy tickets for himself and his family, the Bangkok Post reported."
Traveler charged extra booking fee for having a long last name
I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:00AM (2 children)
So what will they do when someone comes along who's name is the Unicode poop symbol?
And you know someone is going to get named that if they haven't already.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:06AM
Forget unipoop. I'll walk it back with U+13000..1342E.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @08:33AM
Or "Prince" or "slave" or ¥ or whatever his name was