Luke Paireepinart said unto the world upon 21/08/06 03:48 PM: <snip>
> Sort of how my last name is 12 characters long, but on some apps that > only have a 12 character array (with the actual length being 11 because > of the null terminator) the last letter of my name gets truncated. > This doesn't happen anymore, but I used to have everyone calling me > 'paireepinar' because that's what was in the computer so they believed > it. Stupid old programs :) Hi all, I've noticed fewer programs stymied by length, though paper forms with their boxes for each letter still suck. There are, however, quite a few programs in the wild that, suffused with Anglo-Saxon assumptions, refuse to admit that a surname might just possibly commence with a lower case letter or contain spaces (the horror!) Indeed, my current email address was auto assigned by software that gives you your last name as your user name, except when it doesn't ;-) Brian van den Broek _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
