From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 02:40:22 EDT
Jim Allan <jallan at smrtytrek dot com> wrote:
> A shocking number of corporate data-bases in Canada, certainly the
> majority, continue to maintain customer/subscriber/policy
> holder/cardholder data only in uppercase and without diacritics.
It's not just the private sector, either. Canada Post offers a lookup
program that returns the name of the city or town associated with a
given postal code, but the data doesn't include accented characters on
French names. Their online Addressing Guide has a policy of
"recognizing and accepting the use of upper and lower case characters,
including accents..." but apparently their canonical representation of
city names is accent-free. (I turned down a commercial database of
Canadian postal codes some years ago for the same reason.)
BTW, if anyone does know where I can find a list of Canadian cities and
towns, with accents intact, for free or nearly free, please reply
off-line.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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