Re: Phone numbers and form fields

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: Phone numbers and form fields
Date: 08:27 on 04 Mar 2005
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:41:43AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:33:24 +0100, Rhesa Rozendaal <rhesa@xxxxxx.xx> wro=
te:
> > I just moved to Norway. My address has no street name, and no house
> > number (it's a small village, so the postman knows me personally). Try
> > ordering anything off the web, it can't be done.
>=20
> I can only vaguely imagine the pain that people must go through who
> have only one name, none of this "family name" business, when filling
> out forms that require everyone to have a given name and a family
> name. What do they put? "Suharto Suharto"?

Yup. Try signing up for a conference as "Abigail", it's amazing how many
sign up forms won't accept that. Recently, I used a very long rant about
that as my last name. The form accepted it - but the software behind it
truncated it to 20 characters. Hate, hate, hate.



Abigail

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