Even more amazingly, I just discovered (from a friend after ranting about this on Facebook) that you're not allowed letters of this type in names on British Passports¹
Apparently there's a recommended transliteration table² from the ICAO that one should use to determine the replacement letter(s).
2025 feels like a very late date to still be conforming to the requirements of teleprinters. I wonder how long this kind of thing will be perpetuated? Will the young kids of 2100 be aghast at this when Gen Xers like me are long since dead and incinerated?
dcminter•23m ago
Apparently there's a recommended transliteration table² from the ICAO that one should use to determine the replacement letter(s).
2025 feels like a very late date to still be conforming to the requirements of teleprinters. I wonder how long this kind of thing will be perpetuated? Will the young kids of 2100 be aghast at this when Gen Xers like me are long since dead and incinerated?
¹ See page 7: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69247779f2b88...
² See page 24: https://www2023.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons...