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by 7kay 2048 days ago
I'm gonna assume said Jörg is German. Quoting from Wikipedia

> German names containing umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or ß are spelled in the correct way in the non-machine-readable zone of the passport, but with AE, OE, UE, and/or SS in the machine-readable zone

In my EU driver's license the umlauts are spelled in the correct way, these aren't in my name, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_passport#Different_spel...