I’m currently investigating how text encoding in online webforms is embedding error in data systems by failing to accurately represent names outside of the Anglosphere. I see digital text and its attendant standards and norms as an infrastructure, with complicated relations from and to historical technologies and the cutting edge of natural language processing; as well as sociopolitical and sociotechnical concepts of data colonialism, linguistic imperialism and techno-solutionism. But also as a human/computer interaction bound up in identity, culture, language and social relations.