From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/18/26 07:44, Paul Dormer wrote:   
   > In article <099omkhf7istvj5f72g9j5rdhd6c82frfj@4ax.com>,   
   > someone.else@example.com.invalid (Someone Else) wrote:   
   >   
   >> How about the apostrophe in O'Brien? And remember that your   
   >> sort order has to be defined to take into considerations you've never   
   >> come across.   
   >   
   > Reminds me of a story I heard many years ago where someone with an Irish   
   > name couldn't find his name in the telephone directory.  Turned out he   
   > had been entered as 0'Brien and was right at the front of the book.   
      
   Similar problem: some movie promotion firm had software that treated ZIP   
   codes as numbers, but then dropped leading '0's from those numbers.   
      
   For quite a while all the materials they sent Mark ended up going to   
   someplace in Texas, because our ZIP code was 07747, which printed as   
   7747, which was treated as 77470 and ended up in Rock Island, Texas,   
   where someone had to hand-correct it.   
      
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   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
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