{"id":94435,"date":"2016-10-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=94435"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:32:09","slug":"20161003-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20161003-00\/?p=94435","title":{"rendered":"You can register your child&#8217;s name in any language providing you use any Unicode character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As late as 2015, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151019214055\/http:\/\/www.nidirect.gov.uk\/sm\/registering-and-naming-your-baby\">the rules in Northern Ireland regarding registering the birth of a baby<\/a> [when the site asks, say you want the Mobile version] specify that &#8220;You can register your child&#8217;s name in any language providing you use any Unicode character.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine was tempted to see how far he could push that rule. <\/p>\n<p>Could you really name your child U+2603 SNOWMAN or U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO or U+1D5EB MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL X? <\/p>\n<p>And you thought <a HREF=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/327\/\">Little Bobby Tables was confusing<\/a>. Imagine the havoc you could create by naming your child U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT-MARK or U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER or U+FEFF BYTE ORDER MARK! <\/p>\n<p>This month marks the 25th birthday of Unicode. <\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nidirect.gov.uk\/sm\/registering-and-naming-your-baby\">The original link<\/a> appears no longer to be valid. Were people naming their kid U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO? <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.nidirect.gov.uk\/articles\/registering-and-naming-your-baby\">The current rules<\/a> do not mention the &#8220;any Unicode character&#8221; part. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday, Unicode!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-94435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Happy birthday, Unicode!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}