Diacritical Marks

This is a spin off from the recent Baby Names thread. For those with diacritical mark(s) (e.g., umlaut, grave accent, accute accent, etc.) as part of their names, do you consider it a slight when "official" documents in the U.S. do not support them?

"Official" documents should have them.

Then again, they should also at least get names that don't have those marks spelled correctly.

I recently applied for a passport and discovered that my middle name is spelled wrong on my birth certificate.

My middle name is Lawrence. My mother swears she told them how to spell it: "Law.... because he's gonna be a lawyer." But my birth cert says "Laurence."

So my passport also has the same mistake. It's not the end of the world. It has a shitty enough picture of me that I'll get thru customs.

This thread has grown tiresome. I shall listen to Brünnhilde set fire to Valhalla in Wagner's Götterdämmerung.

I will never forgive her for what she did to Grane.

I don't have a diacritical mark in my name, but people insist on spelling it with an extra capital letter in the middle. And that really pisses me off. Apparently, if your last name starts with M-a-c, people and software automatically capitalize the next letter. Feel sorry for Mr. MacH and Mr. MacAroni.

It pisses my wife off even more because she has only been seeing it for a couple of years instead of forty. I got kind of inured to it after a while. I feel it more now because she points it out. That, and there is more brain-dead software MacRos written.

Sometimes I would like to change it back to my great-grandfather's un-Anglicized version, but that had umlauts and I would be screwed again.

Poor Grane. At least he flew with purpose. Poor Siegfried got stabbed in the back!