* Posts by chris@martin.cc

2 publicly visible posts • joined 7 May 2020

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

chris@martin.cc

Spaces are worse

A name sanitiser added to the input will solve the apostrophe problem. They are easily striped out.

You can have a display name with apostrophe and the sanitiser name used for lookups.

But spaces... Il is it

West lake or westlake

Green point or Greenpoint

Ahhhhh

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

chris@martin.cc

Glass house

Because windows