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.

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[silveradept]

Ugh, yes. It's very annoying to see on identity documents a space where there's a high percentage chance there would be a hyphen or am apostrophe, and theoretically to have to put in the name as it appears on the document. (Most times I ask, then put it in correctly, because my system, miracle of miracles, can handle those characters perfectly fine.)

[conuly]

For my mother, they finally agreed on a compromise of listing her name wrong and then adding a line "Known as Anne-Marie" afterwards.

This is very stupid, and my sister is very unhappy about it, but we generally agreed that my mother had enough issues with perceived rejection without us stranding her body in the morgue over this.