On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:32:11PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Very simple: freeform multiline text entry. Period. Anything else
is going to be broken for someone somewhere.
but doing it The Right Way will be vetoed by manglement because it's
confusing.
Intersections between culture
2009/10/15 Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de:
Yes, it's complicated, but it's also the only way to do it right.
Intersections between culture and computing are invariably
complex and complicated. See also: writing systems; calendars and
clocks; person names.
Speaking of which, I pity the
* Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com [2009-10-15 14:10]:
Speaking of which, I pity the people who have a personal name
but no family name […] Though I'm not sure whether to pity them
more or those who do conventionally use two names but which are
not given name, family name
There's also
I worked with a man who had no middle name (Vankatesh Presaud), but the
networking people needed a middle initial because three letters were
required for a login. So he was given an I as a middle initial for
network access, and became VIP.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Philip Newton
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:05:12 -0500, Shawn P. Stanley
sh...@nbs-inc.com wrote:
I worked with a man who had no middle name (Vankatesh Presaud), but the
networking people needed a middle initial because three letters were
required for a login.
FCK, LOL, and other three-letter acronyms spring to
On Oct 15, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* James Laver j...@jameslaver.com [2009-10-11 19:25]:
There's an appalling lack of information out there on how to
multinationally handle addresses and postcodes.
Very simple: freeform multiline text entry. Period. Anything else
is
* Abigail abig...@abigail.be [2009-10-12 01:20]:
The strangest numbering system I've seen was in Austria. And
I've seen it in several small towns. A few years ago, we went
to a guest house, with the address Lofer 24 in Lofer. Turns
out, the town doesn't use street names. Just house numbers.
