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by rmilk 1149 days ago
Or adding a middle name of “A” because some databases can’t handle that a person might not have a middle name or middle initial.
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I have a fairly sophisticated user registration system that can't handle people without family names. We had to jump through some hoops to be able to enroll people who just have given names.
Must have been tough if you rolled out this system in Indonesia.