Thanasis Kinias on Nostr: I continue to be amazed at how *bad* IT systems are at handling names—even the ...

I continue to be amazed at how *bad* IT systems are at handling names—even the whitest of Anglo names.

I just found a student in our student records who has a roman-numeral suffix (like “John Doe IV”) and he’s in the database with a double-barrelled surname “Doe Iv”.

It dook me a second of seriously wondering what the ethnic origin of the surname “Iv” might be...