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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 25 points 5 hours ago

I want the char 8 that makes a beep.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 57 points 6 hours ago

There are a frightening number of systems that don't allow "-", which isn't even an edge case. A lot of people - mostly women - hyphenate their last names on marriage, rather than throw their old name away. My wife did. She legally changed her name when she came of age, and when we met and married years later she said, "I paid for money for my name; I'm not letting it go." (Note: I wasn't pressuring her to take my name.) So she hyphenated it, and has come to regret the decision. She says she should have switched, or not, but the hyphen causes problems everywhere. It's not a legal character in a lot of systems, including some government systems.

[-] troybot@midwest.social 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

And you'd think a simple solution is just leave out the hyphen when you put you name in, but that can also lead to problems when the system is looking for a 100% perfect match.

And good luck if they need to scan the barcode on your ID.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 7 points 5 hours ago

Then the first part is interpreted (in the US, anyway) as a middle name, not as part of the last name. I did run into a recently married woman who did that: dropped her middle name, moved her last to the middle, and used her spouse's last name.

More commonly, places that don't take hyphens tend to just run the two names together: Axel-Smith becomes AxelSmith.

Programmers can be really dumb.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 3 points 3 hours ago

My mom didn't hyphenate, but she does include her maiden name when writing her full name, after her middle name. It never even occurred to me that that's uncommon.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

As someone who's mexican I encounter that more than one would think since I have 2 last names and it gets weird sometimes since I also have a middle name.

[-] r4venw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

I have come across a shockingly large amount of people who not only have a hyphenated last name but also have a hypenated first name! Dealing with every new computer system is like a new adventure

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 104 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

asking questions like this is how i found out that one of the allowed characters in names in my country is ÿ, which is fine in Latin-1 but in 7-bit ASCII is DEL.

[-] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

This sounds like it would create a whole list of fun and irritating edge conditions for some poor bugger to debug. Love it.

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[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 7 hours ago

that's amazing! Aren't codecs fun

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

I really can't even begin to properly explain this because it's just so many layers of intuition. No, you absolutely cannot have a line break in your name. That's not a letter. That said, I'm fully prepared for someone to give me an example of some writing system that uses line breaks for unique purposes apart from spaces.

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[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

Unix or dos format?

Anyway, you probably need to put a backslash before it to indicate line continuation.

But wouldn't it be better to use something more traditional, such as ?

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[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

What about an open bracket? (

[-] fsr1967@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago
[-] whynot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

( it will be fine with enough upvotes

[-] linux2647@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 hours ago
[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Downvoting in order to bring it below @whynot's comment.

[-] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago
[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 164 points 9 hours ago

"We call her Carrie, because of the carriage return."

You can also try to give the child NULL as middle name for additional fun.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 124 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)
[-] neanderthal@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

He is being too nice. He needs to get a lawyer and sue that shitty company for harassment and whatever else.

ETA: The US isn't overly litigious. We are under litigious if anything.

[-] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 47 points 8 hours ago

I just realized that the shitty software on the other side of the divide is casting null to ”null", which absolutely explains that issue. What a cluster

[-] kernelle@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

shudders in NodeJS

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[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

they should have just used rust smh

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[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 52 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Just noticed that the listing for ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES"; -- LTD has been redacted by the government website‽

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Is it missing an apostrophe and a dash? Or they registered the wrong name?

Anyway, the use of quotes seem to have backfired. I blame Excel.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Apparently they didn't include the single quote at the beginning because they wanted to hint at the exploit without actually triggering it.

(and Lemmy seems to combine two dashes into one)

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 96 points 9 hours ago

That's easy, just call it Jhon\nDoe

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 62 points 9 hours ago

John\0Doe will fuck with all C (and C based derivatives) software that touches it.

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 60 points 8 hours ago

Nah, it will end up simply as "John" in the database. You need "John%sDoe" to crash C software with unsafe printf() calls, and even then it's better to use several "%s"

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 hours ago

C and C derivatives will be fine unless they're fucking up encoding.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

Which rarely, if ever, happens. Especially with US software.

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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 hours ago

Am I allowed to include sql command words such as drop table in my child's name?

[-] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 46 points 9 hours ago

I'd rather include a bell character '\a'

[-] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 5 hours ago

Bing Crosby

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 25 points 9 hours ago

And that's why you're not safe for work.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 62 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What's the answer? I need the link

Edit: I found it

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago

Always sanitize your Data inputs.

[-] TGhost@lemm.ee 23 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

NaN,
Not a Number, and now Not a Name

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