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Does that include spaces and dashes? No "Billy Bob" or "Sue-Ellen" ?

Plenty of people already have these names ( Beyoncé to pick somebody famous, born in Texas ). What is your reasoning why they shouldn't be allowed anymore?

https://www.babygaga.com/25-names-that-have-more-than-letter...

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To the extent than names are part of official government records, the government needs to set some limits for what it's systems can handle.

I think emojis and cyrillic alphabet characters should be kept out, for example.

I have seen increasing number of people using emojis as a word or username replacement. Given how well it works in many context, I disagree with excluding emojis.

That we should have a simple standard so that names serve their purpose: everyone should be able to read them, distinct names should not be confused for each other, and the same name should always be written identically. Yes, I'd support banning spaces and dashes - speaking as someone who's obliged to use a mispronunciation of my own name because that was what was reported to the authorities when I first moved here.

So only one version of "Joe" and "Jo" or "Matthew" and "Mathew" ?

I think this will happen right after the US adopts Metric Time.

Lots of nice countries to live in do that.

The Jons and Johns of the world will never let your vision come to be.

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