"New_York"
"New_York"
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I propose that all multiple word names, such as New York, South Africa, New Zealand, The Gambia, etc. be changed to include the underline character between them, ie. "United_States", to eliminate all spaces and the work you have to do when porting them from one data base to another when 25% of the country names take up two columns instead of one.
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The_United_Kingdom_Of_Great_Britain_And_Northern_Ireland
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You also assumed that all names will be written in English only!!! Names have other uses than just to use on the data bases and in other languages than English.
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Seems like a good idea, but I think it would be more complicated than it sounds.
Chris
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-27-06)
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General Electric to General_Electric? Isn't this alreay common in data bases?
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BigInch
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Why not a big inch? There's a long ton and a short ton, not to mention table and tea spoons. Anyway, that's short for "BigInch" as in worm, so not applicable.
BigInch
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Names with an apostrophe, such as O'Connor, or O'Henry are far more problematic than spaces.
Good Luck
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BigInch
-born in the trenches.
http://virtualpipeline.spaces.msn.com
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You have not inidicated problems other than those with data bases. The names they way they are sound just fine to me.
There must be bigger problems with the names and data bases than how they are written. One of them is cities, companies that are renamed.
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BigInch
-born in the trenches.
http://virtualpipeline.spaces.msn.com
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To remove any ambiguity about the meaning of the space.
Unfortunately, we cannot take a space out of someone's name just because it might be convenient to do so. A proper name is a proper name, spaces included.
Good Luck
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Sooooooooo. Who gets "1"?
Isn't an inch a unit of length? Then, it should be long inch and short inch? No?
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Chris
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-27-06)
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..... USA 001, Japan is 002
BigInch
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North America (US and Canada) is 1
Japan is 81
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