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And people in other locales want to be able to use their own name without software mangling it.

At some point there is a physical limitation, there's no passport in the world that accepts a 666-character name.

The US only gives you 21 characters on the DS-11 for a surname.

You're assuming one character is stored as one byte, which is only the case for English.

That sounds like a them problem. ;D

I once heard that "decision" comes from a Latin root word meaning "to cut off (the other options; to pay opportunity cost)". I will decide to optimize for my use case.

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