Originally posted by twhitehead
The interesting part to me is that anyone would care about capitals vs small letters. Why did it matter to wolfgang59 that capitals were used?
What do they do with say Chinese or Hindi names that are 'properly' written in the characters of the native language? Do the computer systems cater for all writing systems? If not, and phonetic versions are the st ...[text shortened]... y in the UTF-8 character set?
Should countries allow names such as ☀☆☘ to be used on passports?
Why did it matter to wolfgang59 that capitals were used?
I thought W59 had made it quite clear.
The interesting part to me is that anyone would care about capitals vs small letters.
It's not that difficult to imagine.
For example, the difference between MacAvoy and Macavoy.
Or the difference between Joanne and JoAnne. I know someone who was named the former, but it was pronounced the latter. She said she was forever having to correct people, so she used the latter for the most part, but there were situations where she'd have to use the former since it was on her birth certificate.
Most pointedly, consider the difference between Ty and TY.
As to the rest, if you're really interested, you should read this article that appeared about 5 years ago in the George Washington Law Review. It's both amusing and instructive. It's really comprehensive.
http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/80-1-Larson.pdf