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?"
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.
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FiniteLooper@lemm.ee · 54 pts · 2y
Dasus@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
Could've gone with Hristopher, I guess?
FiniteLooper@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
I’d love to join a zoom call with a doctor and watching them try to pronounce that.
Kase@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Christofer
E: scrolled down to realize I'm like the third person to say this. So original 🙄🤷
orphiebaby@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
It's a nickname for Hristorectomy.
Threeme2189@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Krtsfr is as concise as can be
elDalvini@discuss.tchncs.de · 47 pts · 2y
Reminds me of this: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
Kase@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
Lmao
Vent@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 2y
Name input should exclusively be an infinitely sized canvas, got it.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
Falsehoods programmers believe about names:
SkyeHarith@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Strongly resisting the urge to rename myself to the concept of ℂⁿ⁺¹.
How do you spell it? You can't. Muahahaha
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
That's why you should store names as images
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Hello, I am 😘 😚 🫡. Nice to meet you
ICastFist@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y
How do you pronounce it? Kissy kissy salute?
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Please, just kall me Kiss.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
🎶 Thaaaaaat’s myyyy name toooo 🎶
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
Impossible, no two people on earth have the same image name!
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Most of the time I don't remember what I commented so me receiving this notification made me think you're one of those spam bots
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social · 4 pts · 2y
One of my financial accounts wouldn't let me transfer money to another because my name wasn't exactly the same on that account.
echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y
Who thinks that?
There's about 5,000 people working at the organization I work at and there's loads of people who have the same name, first and last.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y
Christophe sounds cooler, anyway.
tkohldesac@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2y
Every substitute teacher I ever had called me Christophe thanks to the school district’s character limit.
spiffynova@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
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?"
tkohldesac@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
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.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y
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.
huginn@feddit.it · 13 pts · 2y
Cristopher
Christophr
Christofer
So many options, so few letters
supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Chrstphr as well
Veneroso@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Malprctce, I was named after my uncle, he's in insurance.
Assman@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y
This immediately made me think of Frozen. That's what having kids does to your brain.
_sideffect@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y
You write Chris, and then they lock your account because they think you're fraudulent
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
"Fuckyou" is less than 10 characters.
ooterness@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
So is the poop emoji.
Veraxus@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
I also love when systems tell me my name is “invalid” because it has a character they don’t like.
Zehzin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Christofer
lugal@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
Try to rephrase it
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
~christ
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y
CHRI~1.TXT
King3d@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
This guy FATs
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y
Finger should work.
lrnz92@feddit.it · 3 pts · 2y
Waltuh
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 2y
Chrispenis