We should be using Unicode to store any text by this point in time, but sometimes it still needs to be stated.

Despite what some Americans might think, there are multiple countries in the world. Many of these countries use characters outside of basic 7-bit ASCII in their languages, and of course in their names.

“the distribution of non-alphanumerics in names maps to ethnic groups, so rejecting them is essentially racism”
— Mark (no other name given)

• Fallacy 9: People’s names are written in ASCII.
• Fallacy 10: People’s names are written in any single character set.
• Fallacy 24: My system will never have to deal with names from China.
• Fallacy 25: Or Japan.
• Fallacy 26: Or Korea.
• Fallacy 27: Or Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Russia, Sweden, Botswana, South Africa, Trinidad, Haiti, France, or the Klingon Empire, all of which have “weird” naming schemes in common use.