I have the exact same problem with my European passport. maximum name length, that is total first+middle+surname must be less than 30 characters.
Officially I am not who I am.
Officially I am not who I am.
Interestingly, it looks like we're actually going backwards on this: accented characters have actually been dropped from the main passport page in recent years, to be replaced with ICAO transliterations. Which is shameful, to be honest, since it implies passports are now incomplete as a form of ID (unless the real name is recorded somewhere else). Airline lobbying clearly won the day, years ago. This seems to be a UK-only thing at this point.
[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
In any case, I think it's fair to say that it's a plurality, if not a majority, and that the letters A-Z are the most natural "core" set of glyphs from which the other (upper case) Roman-derived letters are built.
[0] https://www.worldstandards.eu/other/alphabets/
[1] https://www.britannica.com/list/the-worlds-5-most-commonly-u...
Here's the (a?) specification for the machine-readable part of the passport, with transliteration and so on:
https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons_en....
(toyg, did you originally include this link in your comment, then edit it out?)
> passports are now incomplete as a form of ID
Passports are, and always have been, tools for travelling internationally. Depending on a passport for general identity is arguably as much of a mistake as using social security numbers for identification.
In the U.S., every state-issued ID card or drivers license requires, among other things, a document proving identity; a current, valid U.S. passport is considered to meet that requirement. Here, a passport is a federally-issued identity document.
Why would I want a random user in a shop to know my full name?!?
Do they? I had three unexpired bank cards to compare.
My good bank issued me my non-contactless credit card, which is a backup and also the card my Phone "is" when I use that to pay for stuff, which is most of the time. That card (which a little worn) has my first and last name with middle initial.
My good bank also issued me a debit card very recently. This card is entirely black on the front except for the name of the bank and the logo of the card network. However on the back it has my initials and surname.
The other bank I use that does card transactions issued me a more traditional looking card with just my initials and surname on the front.
I think they should ask you how you want your name on the bank cards
If you ask people fifty questions they don't care about, and they don't need to complete the process, they just won't do it at all.
"Would you prefer our letters to you addressed you by your first name, your surname and initials or just Dear Sir/Madam?"
"If we have to call you about your account, should we text first or is it OK to just call immediately?"
"Our cards can be doused in artificial lemon scent instead of smelling of plastic when new. Would you prefer the lemon scent?"
"If you had to fight either one angry goose every Tuesday, or an enraged orangutan on a random day once per year, which would you prefer?"
"Would you prefer Contactless cards or should we disable the Contactless feature on your new card?"
"Going back to the goose question, does your answer to the previous question change if the orangutan has a sword?"