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All caps started becoming more popular in English because a lot of people now have names where the first and last names are interchangeable and it was causing uncertainty.



I wouldn’t mind this becoming an international standard. Going back and forth between the west and Asia, no one is ever sure upon first look which is my given name and which is my surname because of it being written in a different order across different ID cards, registration forms, etc.


I suppose I wouldn't mind it either, so to speak. But I think you should just get assigned an ID number at birth. Ideally it would encode the place and time of your birth, parents' ID numbers and sibling count, what the weather was like when you were born and what was forecast, ...


no shouting everywhere please :(. maybe an underline?


Caps are much easier to handle in database. All customers family names are stored in caps at my company (in France). It really avoids confusion when you call them




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