Re: Senator Kennedy's first name

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:43:06 +0100, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I knew a Swede named Robert Ek. His name triggered errors on some of
our IT systems because a programmer had decided that the miniumum number
of characters in a surname was three. Ng raises a similar problem. The
opposite problem usually comes from Sri Lankan names, which break the
maximum character limits.

That reminds me of the idiot programmers who insist that telephone numbers
must be formatted in a cetrain way. A phone number with an extra or missing
digit is even more useless than a name with extra or missing letters.

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