[sek]

My official full name is too long, I just have a second and a third first name with are all not so short. This is not uncommon here in Germany and therefore usually not a problem. But a lot of foreign IT systems where it says "put it exactly like in your official document" it doesn't work or it cuts it of. Witch made my third name once "Al". It also happened that it took my second name as my last name....

The German state isn't much better with foreign names. I have a lot of friends who are from eastern europe. Everybody has a weird story about how their current passport name came about.

Why isn't there some ISO name parsing standard that can understand a weird title of a prince of a city state and give you an appropriate output of it?

This is acutally a research topic, so the information is right there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroponymy

Our globally connected society didn't figure out how to deal with names yet. Weird if you think about it.

[stefs]

if you start parsing names, you have already lost:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

[sek]

The standard could have fallback field, where you just put your UTF-8 string in there and then the system knows it's something that doesn't fit in all the other categories.

Better than not trying at least, the current situation just sucks.