You should avoid non-latin letters in your name for international use, as that will only give problems for yourself and for your partners and colleagues.
As a Dane I have the letter ‘Ø in my first name SØREN. But I soon realized that that was a problem in English speaking countries and with English language papers and books.
As English in my world is not only for native English speakers it is also the international language in my main areas of interest: environmental education, education for sustainable development, science education, travel, especially travel to islands, photography, (stock photography, not least), nature, birding, and environmental concern.
Conclusion: I have had to skip my special letter ‘Ø’ and use an ‘O’ in stead. It would have been more logic to translate Ø into OE but that only makes it more diffucult.
So for many years I have tried to use my full name as Soren Breiting when I have activities in English language. To my knowledge I am the only person to date wearing that name, see
Happily I do not have more names than that, because more names might also give more confusion.
I have a very good colleague with the name Annemarie Møller Andersen (in fact her name is even longer). Anyway she have had some problems added to the use of the letter ø in her middle name. Because in Danish it would be common to call her family name for ‘Møller Andersen’ as Andersen is one of the most common Danish family names. But the fact is that her real family name is Andersen.
Can you image how this can give problems for a university scholar that produce scientific articles? Where to list the name in the reference list etc.
So I can just be very happy with my own simple and uncomplicated ‘international’ name Soren Breiting – because I early chose to skip the non-latin letter Ø and exchange it to the latin letter o.
