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