No, it strictly should be 'Forde'. If they wish to look faux-antique, then 'fforde', but not 'FForde' or 'Fforde'. Of course, people will present their names as they wish, despite the proprieties.
Systems that can't cope with unusually-shaped names are broken, and should be fixed forthwith. I keep being tempted to change my name to something that would break such systems, from minor hacks such as setting the 8th bit on one of the characters, to grosseries such as inserting a longish stretch of the upper reaches of Unicode as a middle name.
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Date: 2006-03-11 02:19 am (UTC)No, it strictly should be 'Forde'. If they wish to look faux-antique, then 'fforde', but not 'FForde' or 'Fforde'. Of course, people will present their names as they wish, despite the proprieties.
Systems that can't cope with unusually-shaped names are broken, and should be fixed forthwith. I keep being tempted to change my name to something that would break such systems, from minor hacks such as setting the 8th bit on one of the characters, to grosseries such as inserting a longish stretch of the upper reaches of Unicode as a middle name.