[OSM-talk] Name finder and home page search working again

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Wed Mar 26 11:19:38 GMT 2008


On 25/03/2008 21:18, David Earl wrote:
> On 25/03/2008 21:00, David Earl wrote:
>> On 25/03/2008 20:53, Thomas Wood wrote:
>>> The namefinder still seems to fail with: St Paul's Cathedral
>>> (apostrophe as copied & pasted from the British Museum blog post)
> 
> Oh perversity! They've put a "&rsquo" on their web page (which is what 
> you get if you copy & paste) rather than a simple apostophe, which 
> simply isn't what you would type on a keyboard and rather undermines the 
> test. I could make this work, but honestly is it worth it? I suppose I'd 
> better.

OK, this now works.

(If someone happens to enter an apostrophe s on the map using the rsquo 
(UTF-8 character "\xE2\x80\x99") rather than the straight apostrophe 
(UTF-8 "\x27"), this will also work, but not until either the whole 
database is reloaded, or the node in question is touched).

David





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