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May 2024
8:48am, 6 May 2024
4,269 posts
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NordRunner
It's feeble how the council blames «computer problems» for not being able to put an apostrophe in street names, yet His Lordship fixed fetch route names to allow ø æ å seemingly moments after it was requested.
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May 2024
8:55am, 6 May 2024
10,282 posts
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Northern Exile
I agree, feeble. I remember sitting down with both my children and drumming the rules of apostrophe use into them, it's an essential life skill and things like this make my blood boil. It's just another dumbing-down of an accepted standard.
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May 2024
9:05am, 6 May 2024
8,425 posts
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um
Just replace them with ’
I'm sure most people know that's really ', eg my holiday booking confirmation this morning.
Thank you again for booking Lily House, we hope you’re looking forward to your holiday.
(Although I do know the problem, one of the 'leading' cloud ERP systems doesn't allow them. Messes up a lot of Irish names, individual and companies)
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May 2024
9:14am, 6 May 2024
67,795 posts
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LindsD
Grrr
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May 2024
9:57am, 6 May 2024
8,786 posts
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Pothunter
HMRC has issues with special characters in names, and I found out recently that if you have an apostrophe in your name it doesn’t appear on your passport.
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May 2024
10:04am, 6 May 2024
13,959 posts
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sallykate
Ludicrous!
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May 2024
10:30am, 6 May 2024
3,470 posts
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Big_G
This isn’t the same thing, but my OH is Dutch and her surname includes ‘van’, although many systems insist on using ‘Van’. Also, some systems merge the two parts of her surname and come up with ‘Vanstatten’ or ‘Van-Statten’, for example, which are incorrect.
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May 2024
12:34pm, 6 May 2024
22,495 posts
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Columba
Why are we expected to adapt to computer systems, rather than computer systems being made to adapt to us? Who is master here?
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May 2024
12:51pm, 6 May 2024
4,153 posts
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Oranj
I think the problem lies in there being two apostrophes: 'smart' and 'straight' (the same applies to double quotes). When I worked on text mark up software, we'd have to do plenty more work to make sure we'd handled both cases correctly. Don't get me started on prime, double prime and triple prime!
(The variations of surname prefixes such as Van and Mac would also drive us to distraction. Van, van, van..., van der, Van der, etc...)
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May 2024
11:21pm, 6 May 2024
23,068 posts
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ChrisHB
that's what computer professionals are paid for!
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