• Gristle@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Every substitute teacher I ever had called me Christophe thanks to the school district’s character limit.

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      8 months ago

      As a fellow Christophe, I too have seen this all my life.
      It’s comical that so many companies and systems just decided “No one will ever have a name longer than 10 characters, right?”

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        8 months ago

        It’s wild considering it was one of the most popular names for a while. There were 3 other Christophe’s in my class at one point.

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        8 months ago

        South Korea actually has a law that nobody can have names longer than 5 symbols since a traditional name is never longer than that and it’s all their systems are setup to handle.