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gav
697 days ago
At some point there is a physical limitation, there's no passport in the world that accepts a 666-character name.
The US only gives you 21 characters on the DS-11 for a surname.
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Narishma
697 days ago
You're assuming one character is stored as one byte, which is only the case for English.
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