Credit Card validation: can Card Name contain non-ASCII characters?

Question

Can the Card Name (i.e. the cardholder name, not the card type) contain non-ASCII characters? Example: \"JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ\".

Answer 1

Magnetic stripe can store even punctuation symbols like ! " * # % & ( ) ^ : ; < > = ? [ / ] _
But in practice cardholders names uses only:

• Range of English uppercase letters
• Apostrophe (') for names like "Gareth O'Hare"
• Minus (-) for double names like "Alexandru-Cristian"
• Dot (.) for honorific prefixes like "MR.", "MRS.", "MISS.", "MS.", "DR.", "THE."
• Dot (.) for initials like "Jimmy L. Morgan", "J.P. Teron"