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North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs. A local authority has announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems.
North Yorkshire Council is to ditch the problematic punctuation point as it says it can affect geographical databases.
The council said all new street signs would be produced without one, regardless of previous use.
I bet you could run a consulting agency off of just fixing 'Windows-1252 treated as utf8' problems
Resident Anne Keywood did not think the changes were worthwhile. She said: "I think we should be using apostrophes. "If you start losing things like that then everything goes downhill doesn't it?"
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"street names and addresses, when stored in databases, must meet the standards set out in BS7666. This restricts the use of punctuation marks and special characters (e.g. apostrophes, hyphens and ampersands) to avoid potential problems when searching the databases as these characters have specific meanings in computer systems."
