> Even better, when I was a kid and I got my first official document, the national healthcare card, the software in use did not allow a space character in the first name. The operator then decided to add a hyphen to enter the two parts of my name as separate words.
On virtually every airline ticket for which I provided my first and middle name it was just concatenated.
Yeah, I have a two-word last name. It sometimes gets smushed together by the airlines, but they're inconsistent about it.
Lufthansa for example does this in a particularly annoying way, if I give my name as LAST NAME, it will automatically smush it to LASTNAME. However, if I then want to retrieve my boarding pass, it will only find my booking when I enter my name as LASTNAME, because the look-up does not smush things automatically.
On virtually every airline ticket for which I provided my first and middle name it was just concatenated.
For example: I would provide
Frank John Sample as my name it appears as
FRANKJOHN SAMPLE on the ticket
Old reservation and ticketing systems, indeed.