What's worse is that even the apostrophe is a workaround because of the general inability of more older systems/institutions (especially ones depending on typewriters and typesetters) to write or recognise a fada. So now even the workaround is causing problems that need to be worked around.
And even though modern systems should be able to handle any standard accented character without a problem, they still end up causing all kinds of random issues.
Had the same thing happen at a previous job, it got caught immediately and sent back to be changed before it had a chance to break anything. Problem there is that some systems are okay with it and some are not.
As with many one-syllable names, it's a sound that appeared in a lot of languages, so there's multiple places that have it as a surname.
Hmm, I suppose that makes sense for some of them. Things like "Sheriadan" and "Mongons" are definitely spelling mistakes though.
Not particularly common, but not unusual.
