Re: Speaking of language support...

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On 08/03/2009 08:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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


Well, us 'mericans has enough trouble wid English. We don't need no foreign languages to confuse us more.

John

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