People with commonly autocorrected names call for tech firms to fix problem

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‘I am not a typo’ campaign is calling for technology companies to make autocorrect less ‘western- and white-focused’

People with Irish, Indian and Welsh names are among those calling for improvements to the systems that operate on phones and computers.People with Irish, Indian and Welsh names are among those calling for improvements to the systems that operate on phones and computers.People whose names get mangled by autocorrect have urged technology companies to fix the problem faster, with one person whose name gets switched to “Satan” saying: “I am tired of it.

“My name has also been corrected to Savant,” he said. “It is sometimes corrected to Savan, or the hyphen is not accepted by online forms and that irks me,” he said. “Even in India my name gets corrected to “Sawan”, and it’s not just an English issue. It’s a multi-language thing.” She said: “My first name isn’t even that long – only six characters – but yet when it comes up as an error or it’s mangled and considered an unknown entity, it’s like saying that it’s not just your name that’s wrong, but you are.”

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