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May 19th, 2006, 12:27 PM | #1 |
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Apostrophes in Names
Hey, I searched on this topic so I just wanted to point out that when registering with DVInfo I noticed that apostrophes are not allowed in names.
For example, my name is James O'Claire. It's nothing big, a lot of places have these rules, but I just wanted to make sure that the was aware of this :P |
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May 19th, 2006, 07:27 PM | #3 |
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Most computer systems use apostrophes to specify text strings. For example 'michael wisniewski'. So if you have an apostrophe in your name like 'o'leary' this will cause many systems to choke since it will be expecting a 4rth ending apostrophe. Many systems like vBulletin don't allow apostrophes for that reason.
Accented letters like in the word 'café' are not a problem because they fit nicely between the opening and closing apostrophes, aka 'single quotes'.
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May 22nd, 2006, 07:59 PM | #4 |
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Use another key on Keyboard
Using the apostrophe key can be problematic for some software, but as a suggestion, use the unshifted tilde key. The character is `, and is not '
If you use the former character for names like O`Brien etc, then most db software should not choke. Dave E. |
May 23rd, 2006, 03:51 AM | #5 |
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We'll see if we can find out if
there is a fix for this problem.
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