Speaking of language support...
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 15:32:30 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 18:04 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
> It's actually really annoying that still I end up finding websites,
> and
> software which doesn't work well with anything that is more diverse
> than
> 7-bit ASCII, for example I have many times had to try to get around
> stupid name checkers which don't allow '-' and 'ä' in peoples or
> places
> names and so on. So it's really annoying when someone wants less
> language compability by default.
Amen to that, but I have problems because of my surname (O'Callaghan)
and it's not even caused by language issues. Some web forms (mostly
Microsoft-based it seems) interpret the ' as a string terminator and
break horribly.
It's an anti-Irish consiracy :-)
poc
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