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Can you propose a schema that permits all names to be represented without requiring coercion in any case? You'll need to start with with a graphical format, or
by thomasfedb 8y ago
Can you propose a schema that permits all names to be represented without requiring coercion in any case? You'll need to start with with a graphical format, or a character encoding scheme more expressive than Unicode.
Computer system or not, you won't be admitted to a hospital with your name recorded as the first 1000 digits of pi followed by the emoji for coffee and a drawing of a mouse in sneakers.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoI can not, nor am I pretending to. What I was reacting to was this: > Sometimes the answer to item 29: > > And will your software only be dealing with people named by your society? > Is: "yep" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18568710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18568710 I understand that the list is not a set of absolute rules, rather a set of caveats - even mutually exclusive ones! - and that an actual implementation will necessarily violate some of that, and that some intermediate representation would be needed. In other words, there will probably be a "name(s)" textfield, none of this graphical strawman. What I have bristled at was the abovementioned "let's wish it away, that's enough: we'll pretend that everything is ASCII and let the users cope with our design problems ad hoc."
- michaelcampbell 8y agoHe's not wishing it away. His answer could just have been rooted in, "I understand my software won't cater to anyone. I'm ok with that." Bristle at that if you must, I guess; some people aren't happy unless they're mad.