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Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by Aeolun »

koito17 wrote: post #210

There seems to be undocumented requirements for romanizations of city names. Consider a Japanese city like 船橋市。 The official romanization (訓令式 / ISO 3602) would be "funabasi". This is how many people type the name with an IME. However, this is input is rejected, while "funabashi" is accepted. I'm not sure of a good solution. It may be a good idea to state the requirements somewhere

I don’t know how you romanize that, but I’ve never written or said funabashi as anything but funabashi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization

It’s no surprise to me a romanization method aimed at english speakers is used for romanizing an internet input field.

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by Aeolun »

lolinder wrote: post #105
sirobg wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry about that. I didn't realize it would be a problem. It's been reported before and I'll work on this. Thanks for sharing!

It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict—it's a chronic problem here in the states. There are some ridiculously common city names here, but one that's been in the news lately and probably confusing a lot of people is Springfield, which is the name of at least 42 different cities in the US [0], including 5 just in Wisconsin. M…

Maybe they can do something like Discord, and append a 4 digit unique identifier?

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by takumif »

koito17 wrote: post #210

There seems to be undocumented requirements for romanizations of city names. Consider a Japanese city like 船橋市。 The official romanization (訓令式 / ISO 3602) would be "funabasi". This is how many people type the name with an IME. However, this is input is rejected, while "funabashi" is accepted. I'm not sure of a good solution. It may be a good idea to state the requirements somewhere

Is kunrei-shiki romanization ("Funabasi") actually considered official? I see Hepburn romanization ("Funabashi") pretty much everywhere (including the official city website [1] in this case). Plus, it's better aligned with how it's actually pronounced.

[1] https://www.city.funabashi.lg.jp/funabashistyle/en/001/p0427...

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by codeconscious »

koito17 wrote: post #210

There seems to be undocumented requirements for romanizations of city names. Consider a Japanese city like 船橋市。 The official romanization (訓令式 / ISO 3602) would be "funabasi". This is how many people type the name with an IME. However, this is input is rejected, while "funabashi" is accepted. I'm not sure of a good solution. It may be a good idea to state the requirements somewhere

Hmm, good observation. I guess the site supports Hepburn-romanized names. I believe adding support Kunrei-shiki and maybe Nihon-shiki names too would resolve this issue pretty well.

Given that it's an English site, I'm unsure of the value of supporting the original Japanese names too, but of course it would be neat if it did.

(More info about Japanese romanization for any interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese#Moder...)

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by JonChesterfield »

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #149

Nice little thing, congrats to shipping :) I find it ironic that there are many cities with N hackers on meet .hn, yet most are not attaching any way of contacting them, nor do their profile have a way to contact them. How are you (the people without contact details) expecting us to meet you if you don't add a way of meeting you? :)

The line to walk is to make oneself easily contactable by an engineer yet infeasibly difficult for recruiter spam.

Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by [deleted] »

FractalHQ wrote: post #142
pcj-github wrote: post #140

I like this. I know this might sound petty, but the thing preventing me from signing up is your comfort level dispersing information through x.com. You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister. I can't support them, even tangentially.

Imho, your take isn’t as “petty” as it is goofy and unproductive. I’m saying this as someone who has rejected social media entirely and deleted it off of my devices like 10 years go.

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Re: Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

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Post by ksec »

dang wrote: post #192

I've often thought about building something like this into HN itself and having a 'meet' tab at the top. There are so many people, me included, whose lives have been changed by HN. I would love to find a way to encourage more positive effects in the real world. Not sure exactly how this would work, but it's encouraging to see the community taking up the cause again, and I'll be interested to hear about how this goes.…

Love a meet tab. I once tried to arrange a meet up in Hong Kong but then real life and work got in the way.

Would love an easier and semi official way to get things started.

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