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This kind of mentality lead to huge fuckup that were the ASCII code-pages, and we are still suffering fallout from that.

I still cannot input one of letters in my name into most systems for example.

There is a decent middle ground, as you can store first-name(or equivalent), last name(or equivalent) for sorting purposes... and a display name which is culture sensitive.




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