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North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs (www.bbc.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

"All punctuation will be considered but avoided where possible because street names and addresses, when stored in databases, must meet the standards set out in BS7666.

"This restricts the use of punctuation marks and special characters (e.g. apostrophes, hyphens and ampersands) to avoid potential problems when searching the databases as these characters have specific meanings in computer systems."

This seems like a dumb line of reasoning. The problem has never been the signs or punctuation in a database. It's that the people in charge don't even know what BS7666 even says.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We have a piece of legacy software and we have to replace certain symbols in text values as there's manual SQL construction everywhere and none of it uses parameters.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, I live on “St Mary’ ; DROP TABLE street”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

"we call it Drop street for short"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I thought it's the standard's name that fits the situation, but it appears to be humans at a blame as usual