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Last name contains invalid characters [2010]

by aliasEli on 7/8/21, 9:21 AM with 2 comments

• by Normille on 7/8/21, 10:06 AM

    >Does the web site have any idea how rude it is to claim that my last name contains invalid characters? Clearly not
  

  That is one of the milder error messages. I have an accented character in my first name and run up against this all the time. I used to screengrab and collect them, but it would have been easier to collect the sites which didn't object.

  In the rudeness stakes, I think my favourite so far has been:

  "Please enter a valid name"

  although there have been plenty of others, nearly as insulting. I see the post is from 2010. I'm still running into this problem today.

• by aliasEli on 7/8/21, 9:24 AM

  I guess that the hyphen is not the only problem that the author encounters with automated systems.