On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:03:23AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> look at my name, ok?
>
> Just dropping the Umlaut is wrong. No if, but, maybe. It is wrong. Error.
> Mistake. Fail. If you can not enter ?, ? or ?, you must transform them to ae,
> oe or ue.
I'd like to find a program which would do that! Seriously. But
anyway, the purpose of this is not to transform names so our antique
ASCII-7 computers can store them, but to eliminate redundant records.
For instance, we get data from vendors for all cities and states,
geolocation data, which has its own redundancies, such as both FORT
WORTH and FT WORTH, or SAINT LOUIS and ST LOUIS. But we have to
convert to upper case, get rid of punctuation, get rid of extra white
space, etc, and all that is independent of the locale. I want to do
the same for unicode. If enough Europeans are in the habit of taking
shortcuts and skipping umlauts and accents and cedilla and tildes,
then I'd like to standardize the data for lookup. This has nothing to
do with converting people's names for storage. We don't even store
the transformed place name.
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