Birth certificate question

[Anonymous]

You said English Language when you meant Latin Alphabet.

[Anonymous]

PP again, yes, that is what I meant. Thank you. And I have typos everywhere, please excuse my errors... I blame pregnancy brain.

To clarify, I guess I am saying every major system (birth certificate, passport, license, etc.) would have to use the Latin Alphabet characters on U.S. documents, regardless of name type, not only because it would be expensive to change a system to support multiple alphabet types, but ultimately even if they DID change the systems, that would mean U.S. government officials would have to read it in the English language and ultimately end up translating it to English alphabet anyway. Because English is the primary language.

I can only imagine the hubbub at the airport if a driver's license were handed to a TSA official in Chinese or Arabic with an english printed airline boarding pass? That is all I was really trying to say. I just don't see how it could really work in any country.

Thanks for helping me clarify my point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP again, yes, that is what I meant. Thank you. And I have typos everywhere, please excuse my errors... I blame pregnancy brain.

To clarify, I guess I am saying every major system (birth certificate, passport, license, etc.) would have to use the Latin Alphabet characters on U.S. documents, regardless of name type, not only because it would be expensive to change a system to support multiple alphabet types, but ultimately even if they DID change the systems, that would mean U.S. government officials would have to read it in the NATIVE/FOREIGN language and ultimately end up translating it to English alphabet anyway. Because English is the primary language.

I can only imagine the hubbub at the airport if a driver's license were handed to a TSA official in Chinese or Arabic with an english printed airline boarding pass? That is all I was really trying to say. I just don't see how it could really work in any country.

Thanks for helping me clarify my point.

Sorry, correction bolded above. Sigh. I'm tired, its time to leave and eat dinner.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Interesting comments coming in, and I agree that any name on the birth certificate would have to be in the Latin alphabet. So, there probably is no debate here on this.