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But for many of the companies that the people on HN happen to work for the majority or even overwhelming majority of customers.
by bradleyjg 8y ago
But for many of the companies that the people on HN happen to work for the majority or even overwhelming majority of customers.
- gmueckl 8y agoAnd therein lies a terrible misconception: the world does not speak English or German or Mandarin or French, but a horrible mix of all these languages. Eventually, almost any system will have to deal with that. Simple example and a current pet peeve of mine while staying in the US: my name is spelled with an ü. I will likely try to enter that in your web form, because it is part of my legal name. A lot of systems happen to "sanitize" that input when it is passed across some invisible internal boundaries and it becomes a u. Now that system has actually changed my name. ü and u are completely different letters. The proper conversion actually is the transcription ue - two letters! If that were - say - the address for a letter to Germany, it might well return to sender because there is noone with the (altered) name living at the given address.