Bank website: what’s your name? Me: *swears under breath* Let’s try this one. Bank: Haha sucker we meant: what is your name in full-width characters. Me: For Pete’s sake that is losslessly transformable from half-width characters; what do you think it is?!?
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Partly this is a combination cultural problem at the bank and skill problem for the developer. Partly it’s “just” an underlying technology problem. The framework/language should have solved for this by now. Partly it’s a philosophy of computing problem. Goal is not “move data”!
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“Cultural problem at the bank?” Speculating with a moderately high degree of confidence given previous experience: somebody made the inevitable pushback on the requirements document and someone else said “I dunno Compliance already signed off; let’s just make the user do it.”
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This seems have popped up with the stimulus checks in the US: https://twitter.com/jessica_roy/status/1254148813557600257?s=21 … TL;DR: the home address input for Americans to get their Coronavirus stimulus checks is, anecdotally, case sensitive. No error message, either.
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Buddy you’re in the wrong country!!
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