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by krick
642 days ago
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Every point is not self-explanatory, and some are clearly true (while the assumption is they must be false). For instance, it surely is true that any name will fit in under a Terabyte of text, if it can be encoded at all (and assuming the contrary is counter-productive). Claiming you should not assume any name can be spelled in Unicode is absurd as well. And, yes, it's perfectly fine to assume that if your system must have "real" (i.e. proved by any kind of document) names, you won't have to deal with Klingon names (even though it isn't a huge relief, honestly, since they still can have pretty much whatever format). For most systems, even more restrictive assumptions than that are totally fine. You don't have to defend the "original" post just because it was patio11's. This idea was awful and stupid from the very beginning, and every new post of this "series" just repeats the offence. |
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For any given fixed size that people use in practice, there is a name that does not fit. This is saying "use a variable-length field for names, because there are always edge-cases".
> Jullien was born in Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and was baptised Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noë Jean Lucien Daniel Eugène Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Barême Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas Pierre Arbon Pierre-Maurel Barthélemi Artus Alphonse Bertrand Dieudonné Emanuel Josué Vincent Luc Michel Jules-de-la-plane Jules-Bazin Julio César Jullien. His father was Antonio Jullien, a violinist. The explanation of his unusual number of names is that when the time came for the baby to be baptised, his father had been invited to play at a concert given by the Sisteron Philharmonic Society, and considered it only polite to ask one of the members of the orchestra to be godfather: but since every member wished to be considered for the privilege, he was christened with the names of all thirty-six members of the society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Antoine_Jullien