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The way American (or maybe English speaking) companies handle diacritics is shameful... but don't postal codes serve as a kind of check against incorrect or amb
by jdavis703 11y ago
The way American (or maybe English speaking) companies handle diacritics is shameful... but don't postal codes serve as a kind of check against incorrect or ambiguous place names?
- liw 11y agohttps://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a... That documents that not all addresses have postal codes. This is another example of the real world existing in order to give programmers kicks in the head.
- realusername 11y agoPostal code in France is an effectively an area code (which can be quite large) so it does not help you to find the house/building, the main goal of it is to dispatch mail.
- Symbiote 11y agoThis annoys me, as I've had to deal with a lot of corrupted data. So when I moved from the UK to "København Ø" I experimented on all the change of address forms, for banks etc. Many could handle the characters, but where I sent a paper form the person entering the data didn't know how to type it. This must be a problem for somewhere like Armenia, where I have seen people really struggling with the English alphabet. Education was Armenian and Russian for a long time. (There are postcodes in Denmark, but Ø is the first letter of East, so is a very broad code, in a way.)