Re: Name Capitalization

From: 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 -- 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? > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >

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