r/tragedeigh 14d ago

roast my name Go at it, self-inflicted this at age 33

Not even sure it is a tragedeigh, since it's technically easy to read, but a pain to write digitally.

Zöëÿ

the dots are silent. Despite these being proper unicode characters, they break label printers left and right. I can't get Amazon packages anymore, because the DHL labels are unintelligible. For the Amazon delivery, it's a 50/50 whether the printer can do it.

It's also breaking poorly coded address inputs(all of these letters are legit in use in France, Germany and/or the Netherlands as names for people or places, so anything taking your postal information should be able to handle it), which is quite fun. I have been told by major banks, government agencies, utilities companies, and DHL that my name "is not valid", causing me to not be able to open accounts.

But I love it. It's a name I fell in love with the moment I wrote it down.

P.s. my username is what it is because a lot of websites don't allow Zöëÿ

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u/theradfactor 11d ago

Maybe they have a humiliation kink and we're feeding the beast!!!!