Re: Name Capitalization
| From: | Shafiq Rehman | Date: | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:57:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Name Capitalization | ||
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Hi,
Some problems are universal and we cannot fix them in computer science. I
think it's better to educate/guide your visitors about such names that they
write in correct capitalization
Regards
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Shafiq Rehman (ZCE)
http://phpgurru.com | http://shafiq.pk
On 3/21/07, Tijnema ! <tijnema@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/21/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, March 20, 2007 8:41 am, Tijnema ! wrote:
> > > What's against just capitalizing the first letter?
> > >
> > > Of course there exists a lot of different combinations where a capital
> > > letter should be, but if names are coming in like MCDONALD or
> > > mcdonald, a user would be happy if he sees Mcdonald.
> >
> > You have clearly never ever dealt with musicians. :-)
> >
> > They will not just accept the wrong capitalization.
> >
> > You will need to fix it.
> >
> > I'll hazard a wild guess somebody will complain about the uc_first
> > solution, and for every complaint, you can count on 10 more who just
> > shrugged it off, but it's still wrong.
>
> Well, then you are working for hours on implementing filters for
> special names, and then you still get a few names wrong... and then
> you did all that work for a few fixes. It's just not worth to create
> such filter.
>
> Tijnema
> >
> > --
> > Some people have a "gift" link here.
> > Know what I want?
> > I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist.
> > http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch
> > Yeah, I get a buck. So?
> >
> >
>
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