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covidpass-org / covidpass

Web app for adding EU Digital COVID Certificates to your wallet apps
https://covidpass.marvinsextro.de
MIT License
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Write the name in uppercase or capitalize it #122

Closed Fatal1ty closed 3 years ago

Fatal1ty commented 3 years ago

For some reason all test results I got in French pharmacies contain my first and last names in lowercase, which seems ugly to me. Although my passport has the both names in uppercase, which may be the reason for a health specialist not to distinguish the case of letters. Besides, I think writing a passport holder's name in uppercase is a common practice in the world, so I suggest making an optional conversion to uppercase in the certificates created by this app. It might look better this way. Most likely this change won't be considered by anyone as an attempt to cheat.

It would be even better to capitalize a name but I'm not sure how to deal with dutch names like Vincent van Gogh.

JantsoP commented 3 years ago

All of the data you see on your phone is decoded from the QR code. Meaning that the typo is in the source, not in the service :)

marvinsxtr commented 3 years ago

Also, any modifications to the name bears the risk of other names being displayed in a wrong way. Until now, we only have a fallback to the uppercase version (encoded in the pass itself) if the name contains special (non-latin) characters to make the pass readable for foreigners.