North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
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Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#2I live on Bobby Tables Close.
Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#3I can't find a public copy of the recent versions of BS7666. The 2006 version had zero instances of the word 'apostrophe' so not sure what they think they are referencing.
BS 7666: 2006 is based upon an International Standard ISO 19112 Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers.
Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#4I live on Bobby Tables Close.
I live on Butts Wynd
Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#5The best part of this article is:
Ruby Wang... did not mind the changes. "To be honest with you, because I'm not from this country it doesn't matter because it's the same pronunciation," she added.
Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#6So, no "O'Malley" or "O'Kelly" or "O'Brien" will ever be honored with a street name in North Yorkshire using their actual (Anglicized) name?
This isn't a new issue. Around 1990 one of the computer labs at my school was run by someone with an Irish surname starting "O'", and I remember him complaining about software which couldn't handle his name.
It's been 30 years, and there are still problems?!?
(To say nothing of "Madeleine L'Engle" or any of many others with an apostrophe in their name.)
Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#7I refuse to believe any standard considered fit for use in 2024 allows absolutely no special characters via escape sequences.
Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#8As if database were not able to del with apostrophes or other special characters...
Yes you have to sanitize your queries, but you have to do it anyway.
Client applications will of course have to be smarter
Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#9Makes sense IMO, the apostrophes don't add much but can cause a lot of issues in manual transcription, simple queries, etc.
Re: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
#10Makes sense IMO, the apostrophes don't add much but can cause a lot of issues in manual transcription, simple queries, etc.
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