The customer's name and surname printed on credit and debit cards is called the emboss name.
So can the name and surname be printed on the card without any limit?
There is a defined field for all the information printed on a card. These fields have specific standards. The emboss name is one of these fields. The emboss name information cannot extend beyond the field defined for it. For this reason, banks generally manage the emboss name so that it does not exceed 25 characters for credit cards (since it is embossed), and 26 characters for debit cards.
Long names and accented characters
The name field on the card is also limited in the magnetic stripe data format. For this reason, long names are abbreviated; often a middle name or part of the surname is shortened.
In addition, because the character set used in the stripe data is limited, Turkish letters with diacritics or dots are generally printed using their plain Latin equivalents.
This is not an error from the customer's perspective. It is useful to check in advance, at the time of card application, how the name will appear.
