More things I'm begging people to do, this time with no apologies:

[conuly]

If you have any influence or control at all over the people who run a database with people's names, please please please do whatever you can to make sure they accept hyphens and apostrophes. This is 2022! You don't need to be so stingy with what are, in fact, pretty common aspects of a lot of people's names!

My sister should not have spent half this day arguing with the hospital over whether or not the name Anne-Marie properly contains a fucking hyphen.

Comments

[frandroid]

Since we nowadays have distinct characters for apostrophes (I think there are three, actually?) in addition to the single quote character, a good ingestion of a user's name could take any single quotes or apostrophes and rewrite them all as a chosen apostrophe character, avoiding this issue entirely. Not that I have done that myself; usually ORMs are sufficient to avoid this issue... But I feel it would be good to fix that in the data, since no real name contains actual quote marks, Patrick McKenzie be damned.