Apoorv Tyagi • 12/4/2023

Going Vernacular: Engineering Our Way to Process Multilingual Names

This article discusses the engineering challenges faced when enabling multilingual name support in a signup API, where 5% of requests failed due to a regex constraint allowing only English characters. It covers data storage strategies in MongoDB, including collation indexes for multiple languages, API gateway constraints limiting headers to ASCII characters, and external partner compatibility issues. The author provides practical insights into solving these problems for a diverse user base, focusing on Indian languages.

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#error handling #mongodb #unicode