On a similar note: our company's name ( [a•mo•bee] ) has non-ASCII characters. It has exposed bugs in more than one website...
We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
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Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#102If my last name were Null, I'd totally call my son Dave!
I do actually know a man called Dave Null. I thought that must be very rare, but in fact, LinkedIn finds 116 hits if you search for him:
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#103I remember having "funny" situations with with AS3 SOAP marshaling and unmarshaling. For example, in same cases it would just fail silently, providing half populated objects without without any errors. In the end, the workaround was to just invoke SOAP methods directly using HTTP and just manually parse XML response. Good old days.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you know, there's an xkcd for that too: http://xkcd.com/1105/
If I could change one thing about human history, I'd remake the 0 and O's (# and letter) and the I, l, and 1 (letter i, letter L, and #) so you could never confuse them in hard to read CAPATCHs.
Depending on the font sometimes even 5 and S and 8 and B too.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals which shows examples of the differences in those numerals, but it looks like the different representations have different Unicode codepoint. So, there's no need for the lang attribute. (The page uses them, but if you take them off there's no difference in the display.) You probably need to know the language to do things like sorting, comparison, regex, etc.…
Not quite. The Wikipedia article shows the difference between U+0660 .. U+0669 (Arabic-Indic digits) on the top row and U+06F0 .. U+06F9 (Eastern Arabic-Indic digits) on the bottom row. But what I'm talking about are the different glyphs used to represent the bottom row (U+06F0 .. U+06F9) depending on whether the text is in Persian, Sindhi, or Urdu. See http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch08.pdf , table 8-…
This is an issue with CJK characters and probably just one more reason why UTF-8 adoption has been slow where JIS is good enough.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#106As long as we're playing the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" game again, here's the relevant patio11 article: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... If you try to validate names, or if you don't safely escape names along with your other user-input strings, you're gonna have a bad time.
One thing that's annoying to me is that governments and employers increasingly believe many of these things, partly because they want to cross-reference names and match canonical forms. My given names in English are Mark Jason, and that's on my birth certificate. In Greek, they're Μάρκος Ιάσονας, which are the equivalents, and that's on my municipal birth records there (registered as a foreign birth at the time of ba…
Yea, my daughter's name is a bit unusual, and so the transliteration produces a different name than english. Her name is Thamina. It's an Arabic origin name, so in Arabic it's : ثمينة. Not that she's Arabic at all, she's part Russian, and was born in Russia, so her name is Тхамина in Russian. They transliterate her name in a standard way to Tkhamina on her Russian passport, but on her USA passport it's Thamina.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#107As long as we're playing the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" game again, here's the relevant patio11 article: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... If you try to validate names, or if you don't safely escape names along with your other user-input strings, you're gonna have a bad time.
One thing that's annoying to me is that governments and employers increasingly believe many of these things, partly because they want to cross-reference names and match canonical forms. My given names in English are Mark Jason, and that's on my birth certificate. In Greek, they're Μάρκος Ιάσονας, which are the equivalents, and that's on my municipal birth records there (registered as a foreign birth at the time of ba…
Growing up, my parents called me by my middle name, as I share a first name with my dad. (I'd rather be an Edward than a Ralph anyway.) When giving my name to someone, I tell them I'm Edward , as telling them I'm R. Edward just sounds pretentious. But if I'm beginning a relationship with a doctor's office or lawyer, or filling in a tax form, it's Ralph E. Lastname, because that's what's on my birth certificate and SSA record. It is quite annoying when the phone rings, and I don't recognize the calling number, so I answer with a guarded, "This is Ed..." and hear the caller ask, "May I speak to Ralph?" and have to explain to them that I really am Ralph, even though I said I was Ed. But I have to say, my problems are nothing compared to yours!
CSB: My mom signed me up for a book club when I was 6 or 7. For the Firstname field, she wrote, "R Edward" for reasons known only to her. For the next three years, every couple months, I'd get a package addressed to Redward . I could just imagine the shipping clerk in that company reading my shipping label and saying to himself, "Redward... what a goofy name."
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#108As long as we're playing the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" game again, here's the relevant patio11 article: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... If you try to validate names, or if you don't safely escape names along with your other user-input strings, you're gonna have a bad time.
My name fail to register surprisingly often, even here in Brazil. It is Hélder Maurício Gomes Ferreira Filho Common reasons for failure is being too long and having non ASCII characters, but sometimes it fails for other reasons, for example do not allow me to register without a middle name ( I don't haven't one actually... ), me confused and not knowing how to register Filho ( it is not a family name, neither a surna…
As a Portuguese speaker, i can say i would never write Hélder correctly if i simply hear it.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thing that's annoying to me is that governments and employers increasingly believe many of these things, partly because they want to cross-reference names and match canonical forms. My given names in English are Mark Jason, and that's on my birth certificate. In Greek, they're Μάρκος Ιάσονας, which are the equivalents, and that's on my municipal birth records there (registered as a foreign birth at the time of ba…
Growing up, my parents called me by my middle name, as I share a first name with my dad. (I'd rather be an Edward than a Ralph anyway.) When giving my name to someone, I tell them I'm Edward , as telling them I'm R. Edward just sounds pretentious. But if I'm beginning a relationship with a doctor's office or lawyer, or filling in a tax form, it's Ralph E. Lastname, because that's what's on my birth certificate and SS…
Try just answering the phone with "hello?" for unknown numbers.
Re: We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
My name fail to register surprisingly often, even here in Brazil. It is Hélder Maurício Gomes Ferreira Filho Common reasons for failure is being too long and having non ASCII characters, but sometimes it fails for other reasons, for example do not allow me to register without a middle name ( I don't haven't one actually... ), me confused and not knowing how to register Filho ( it is not a family name, neither a surna…
I found your comments on "Filho" interesting. In English, the equivalent is "Junior" with the father sometimes using "Senior." It is not part of your name per se, and thus would not be typed into the name field of a form. However, in places where naming sons after their fathers is common, there is often be an additional drop down box listing (Jr, Sr, I, II, III, and so on).
thats why the x.400 and 500 standards had the concept of generational qualifiers.