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In contrast, as a Swedish user, I'm spectacularly impressed when, say, a flight or train booking site lets me search for Goteborg rather than Göteborg. Because
by scbrg 6y ago
In contrast, as a Swedish user, I'm spectacularly impressed when, say, a flight or train booking site lets me search for Goteborg rather than Göteborg. Because otherwise, you know, I probably can't get the fuck home from wherever I happen to be with whatever keyboard the particular machine I happen to be using has.
The number of times, in actual real life, that the inconvenience of the ambiguity outweighs the convenience of the overlap are not many.
YLMV.
- cyxxon 6y agoI would assume that sites like this know these words as synonyms and don't simply do a lax string matching, because in this specific case "Gothenburg" would probably also work - it did when I was planning a route through Sweden with a German app that defaults to local spellings in foreign countries.
- HelloNurse 6y agoFlight and train booking sites need to support search for a very small set of place names: if they care about selling tickets they can list a synonym list for each destination, sidestepping language and spelling norms. Fuzzy completion in search forms as one types, like e.g. in Google Maps, is also effective.