Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name - BC | Globalnews.ca
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Signposts on the Vancouver street bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet.
  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Updating databases to support anything other than that which would run on a 1970s mainframe costs the sort of money that eats into C-level’s yacht funds, so it won’t happen.

    Even so, multiple strategies to include unicode characters in ASCII exist. *sigh*

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Putting it in a DB is the easy part.

      It’s support in a thousand other systems that deal with addresses that’s the real problem.

      For something like a street address, interoperability is a hell of a lot more important than culturally preferred spelling.