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North Yorkshire to phase out apostrophes on street signs, citing database issues
- cranberryturkey 2y agoso instead of properly escaping their sql queries they chose to remove the offending character from the street signs??
- bell-cot 2y agoObligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
- beardyw 2y agoScenario: "When we do db lookups it's easier if there is no punctuation." "OK, easy, let's take out the punctuation" Later: "It turns out that data is used to make Street signs" "Well, it's sort of a problem with the database isn't it ...."