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by stefs 2413 days ago
if you start parsing names, you have already lost:

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

1 comments

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.