Yannick:
Considering that we just had a flurry of pet-peeves on the list, I
rant on one of mine.
At 1:25 PM -0500 5/12/08, Yannick Warnier wrote:
I'm trying to give a universally-manageable directory name to an item
using a free-text title. I want to avoid every type of accentuated
character and everything outside of pure ASCII to make it the most
portable possible.
Generating a random hash is not acceptable as we want to be the most
user-friendly possible.
<rant>
As Rocky (the flying squirrel of Bullwinkle fame) once said when a
gentleman in a black suit identified himself as "Military
Intelligence" -- "That sounds like a contradiction in terms."
To make something as user-friendly as possible is to accommodate as
many users as possible, including those who's native language is not
English -- like 96 percent of the world.
You may want to call whatever you are doing as an
"universally-manageable directory", but it can't be if it rules out
the majority of the universe (as we know it).
Why not embrace Unicode and not worry about it? I suggest you read
"Building Scalable We Sites" by Henderson -- specifically chapter 4,
which deals with Unicode, Internationalization and Localization.
Looks to me like you're trying to fit a gross into a dozen -- that's
a lossy process that's probably not going to do what you want.
</rant>
Cheers,
tedd
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