a friend of mine has that problem. his company is owned by his wife because his name can't appear in legal documents and he refuses to change it. his approach was that he petitioned unicode to include that character.
i don't think the authorities are actively trying to eliminate those characters but simply don't want to go through the effort to track down and have those characters added to the standard. the process takes years and in the mean time you have to live with the inconvenience. also most of the people faced with the problem would not even know how.
maybe has the benefit that he also can't receive speeding tickets?
> his approach was that he petitioned unicode to include that character.
Sounds like the right approach (although not the easiest). if unicode can include thousands of smileys, the least they can do is include actual characters used in people names.
i don't think the authorities are actively trying to eliminate those characters but simply don't want to go through the effort to track down and have those characters added to the standard. the process takes years and in the mean time you have to live with the inconvenience. also most of the people faced with the problem would not even know how.