The name game

Hirtopolis has a new citizen named Zoe. When registering her birth, I was amused to find strict naming requirements:

  • must consist only of the letters “a” to “z”, hyphens and apostrophes
  • may include accents as long as they are found in French (so ç and ý are okay, but not ã or ÿ)
  • “if the mother or father or both have a hyphenated or combined surname, only one of the names in that surname or those surnames must be used” (so no John Doe-Smith-Buchanan-Fredericks)

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