Speaking of language support...

[john wendel]

On 08/03/2009 08:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 18:04 +0300, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
>> It's actually really annoying that still I end up finding websites,
>> and
>> software which doesn't work well with anything that is more diverse
>> than
>> 7-bit ASCII, for example I have many times had to try to get around
>> stupid name checkers which don't allow '-' and 'ä' in peoples or
>> places
>> names and so on. So it's really annoying when someone wants less
>> language compability by default.
>
> Amen to that, but I have problems because of my surname (O'Callaghan)
> and it's not even caused by language issues. Some web forms (mostly
> Microsoft-based it seems) interpret the ' as a string terminator and
> break horribly.
>
> It's an anti-Irish consiracy :-)
>
> poc
>

Well, us 'mericans has enough trouble wid English. We don't need no 
foreign languages to confuse us more.

John