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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>Great reference, thanks! Gotta like NXX and UXX. Bet airline staff get to explain this a LOT to first-time travelers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>And thanks also for providing BOTH page numbers. (I hate that aspect of PDFs, though there’s no real way to fix it.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Unicode <unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Henri Sivonen via Unicode<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 30, 2025 9:33 AM<br><b>To:</b> unicode@corp.unicode.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Why do webforms often refuse non-ASCII characters?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 5:58<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span>PM Jens Maurer via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" target="_blank">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>For the airline industry, names seem to be all-caps ASCII, and<br>I wouldn't be surprised if there are some IATA or ICAO rules that<br>require exactly that.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>See <a href="https://www.icao.int/publications/documents/9303_p3_cons_en.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.icao.int/publications/documents/9303_p3_cons_en.pdf</a> from PDF page 32 / in-document page number 24 onwards.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>FWIW, it's worse than what the spec says: Even though the spec allows A for Ä and O for Ö, Finnish passports do the German-style AE and OE even though it doesn't really match the preferences of either Finnish-language or Swedish-language name holders. I imagine that changing what Finland does for passports could be messy as people's ICAO names would change.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>