Brittany court rules name’s spelling cannot feature non-French characters (ñ) even though region has its own languageA French court has banned a couple from giving their baby a name containing a tilde, ruling that the character ñ was incompatible with national law. The couple from Brittany wanted to call their newborn boy Fañch, a traditional name in the northwestern region which has its own language. Fañch is a name borne notably by two Breton writers, Fañch Peru and Fañch Broudig. The baby, born in May, already has an ID card and passport with a tilde on it. His furious father Jean-Christophe Bernard said the battle wasn’t over : “He will have his tilde, that’s for sure,” Bernard said.

Source: The Guardian September 13, 2017 19:28 UTC