On Wednesday January 14 2015 01:02, you wrote to me:
SD>>> "ASCIIfication" is no more than just form of encoding, it does SD>>> not make name "unreal".
MV>> I didn't mean to suggest that it isn't. But it s not what is on MV>> your birth certificate isn't it?
SD> Birth certificate is just piece of paper issued by state.
That's one way of looking at it...
SD> State law says that it must be filled in cyrillic then it was filled SD> in cyrillic. May be at some moment new law will approach that will say SD> to reissue all birth ceritificates in latin - will it change my name?
I don't know. It is your name, you tell me. If it were the other way around and the powers that be forced me to write my name in cyrillic, to say that I am not amused, would be the understatement of the year. I would consider it a change of name.
OTOH... I am a radio amateur. I know that the "ch" in my name is almost impossible to pronounce for native English speakers and many others in the world. So when I speak with fellow hams outside the areas where Dutch is the going language, I present myself not as "Michiel" but as "Mike". To make it easier for them. But "Mike"is not my real name. It is a "handle".
SD> I can use any label as alias but there is only one (or few with small SD> deviations) representation of originally cyrillic name as a sequence SD> of latin characters. So it is not alias in general. Not any sequence SD> of letters is name spelled in latin, but any can be considered as SD> alias. We even have legal specification how to spell names in latin.
So I take it you won't be campaigning to get your name in the nodelist in Cyrillic then?
