How could programming a reg system be hard?

[bigtig]

I spent some time at FC chatting with someone who helped them with their reg system. We commiserated on a few things, and talked of each others successes. It was fun.

It is funny how a simple problem can actually be quite complex. One of the most basic things a registration system does is capture peoples names to associate it with their

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It worked very well indeed:)

[kagur]

I was very impressed with how smoothly your system registered attendees.

[zorinlynx]

I gotta make it to a west coast con sometime. There seems to be a whole large group of people out there who never make it to the east coast cons!

[wingywoof]

So easy.

[tracerj]

People have exactly one canonical full name.
Historically, I have two or three, depending on whether pseudonyms count.

People have exactly one full name which they go by.
I have two, one of which isn't in the above list.

People have exactly N names, for any value of N.
I'm told that cats have three, but I figure that the point of the matter is, cats wouldn't actually tell you how many they had even if they liked you.

People’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space.
Oh, I love it when I come across blanks meant to hold someone's full name and I think, "I know people with family names longer than this."

People’s names do not change.
Pardon my uproarious laughter. *grin*

People’s names change, but only at a certain enumerated set of events.
Only for comic book characters....

People’s names are written in ASCII.
People’s names are written in any single character set.
People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points.I hate when I see someone's accented letters stripped to "safe" characters. I also hate when someone