• lseif@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      6 hours ago

      so John\r Doe ? depending on the software, when it gets printed, the carriage return will moves the cursor to the start of the line without moving a line down, becoming \x20Doe.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    19 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.

  • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    1 hour ago

    It’s impossible to represent that on paper. It could be misrepresented as a specific number of spaces. Depending on the position on the paper, it may also be hard to tell if the carriage return comes with the line feed. Unless you want the document to be in ASCII or EBCDIC, it’s like writing an ambiguous math problem where the answer is different depending on how you were taught about the order of operations. Don’t do this to your kid, Abcde.

  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
    101·
    21 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 <br>?

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
    75·
    23 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.

    • r4venw@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      21 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

    • Affidavit@lemm.ee
      52·
      21 hours ago

      It boggles my mind how so many websites and platforms incorrectly say my e-mail address is ‘invalid’ because it has an apostrophe in it.

      No. It is NOT invalid. I have been receiving e-mails for years. You just have a shitty developer.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        211·
        20 hours ago

        worst thing is, the regex to check email has been available for decades and it’s fine with apostrophies

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
          15·
          19 hours ago

          Well, and remember: If in doubt, send them an e-mail. You probably want to do that anyways to ensure they have access to that mailbox.

          You can try to use a regex as a basic sanity check, so they’ve not accidentally typed a completely different info into there, but the e-mail standard allows so many wild mail addresses, that your basic sanity check might as well be whether they’ve typed an @ into there.

            • Ephera@lemmy.ml
              7·
              16 hours ago

              Yeah, I’m just saying that the benefit of using such a regex isn’t massive (unless you’re building a service which can’t send a mail).

              a@b is a syntactically correct e-mail address. Most combinations of letters, an @-symbol and more letters will be syntactically correct, which is what most typos will look like. The regex will only catch fringe cases, such as a user accidentally hitting the spacebar.

              And then, personally, I don’t feel like it’s worth pulling in one of those massive regexes (+ possibly a regex library) for most use-cases.

        • lad@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          There are many regexes that validate email, and they usually aren’t compliant with the RFC, there are some details in the very old answer on SO. So, better not validate and just send a confirmation, than restrict and lock people out, imo

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            12 minutes ago

            The article you just mentioned in the comments includes both a completely reasonable and viable regex and binary and library alternatives that are in most languages.

    • troybot [he/him]@midwest.social
      20·
      22 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.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
        11·
        21 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.

        • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          6·
          20 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.

        • Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish
          6·
          20 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.