Once I was tasked with doing QA testing for an app which was planned to initially go live in the states of Georgia and Tenessee. One of the required fields was the user's legal name. I therefore looked up the laws on baby names in those two states.

Georgia has simple rules where a child's forename must be a sequence of the 26 regular Latin letters.

Tenessee seemed to only require that a child's name was writable under some writing system, which would imply any unicode code point is permissible.

At the time, I logged a bug that a hypothetical user born in Tenessee with a name consisting of a single emoji couldn't enter their legal name. I reckon it would also be legal to call a Tenessee baby 'John '.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you did a thorough job as a QA tester. As a software engineer, I love to see it.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the time the app was due to go live, we'd only reported bugs with the signup and login flows. This was misinterpreted as there only being issues with the signup and login flows, and the app launched on time. In reality, it was impossible to get past the login screen.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then let me guess... Of course the QA testers get the blame, when in reality it's either management or marketing that wanted to pushe the app out.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Blaming us would be too close to root-cause analysis for them even to consider. We weren't normally QA testers, but they'd left it until too late to hire internal QA, so roped in the developers (us) from a SaaS vendor their app replied on as emergency QA.

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[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Na, names are about pronunciation (how you call someone). Written letters are an approximation of that. You can't pronounce a newline, so there's that.

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

Just crouch down to simulate moving to a lower line.

John Doe

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Be funny as fuck if Canada started extradition procedures when he landed

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not legal in Sweden. Our "IRS" must also accept the name and deem it legal.

I for one like this. As it stops some very stupid people to name their children some very stupid names. Such as "Adolf Hitler".

And yes. Someone did try to name their child this and they were appropriately stoped from doing it.

[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Should have went with Adolf Olivernipples

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

ugh literally 1984

[–] PanoptiDon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png

[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 hex, 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.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, cause "John\nDoe" messes up my regex. Sorry, out of the question. I'm not good with regex.

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