Timeline for Why do some users complete forms all in capital letters?
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 14:55 | history | edited | DanielST | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 7:53 | comment | added | Crissov |
@Alice This ain’t Wikipedia ;) Ask anyone with an ß in their name, for instance. Who am I to decide whether that are some or many? Too many for sure, though. Also, often (e.g. on credit cards) uppercasing co-occurs with “ASCIIfication”, i.e. the removal of diacritics, and therefore has a bad standing by association.
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 3:53 | comment | added | Alice | @Crissov Citation needed. I could understand you saying some, but many is probably overstated. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 8:26 | comment | added | Andrew Thompson |
Note: To turn list items into a bullet list, use - Address:.. (a space after the -).
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| Dec 13, 2014 at 14:17 | comment | added | Crissov | @Kik Many people are not only used to but hate seeing their names in all caps. A solution that potentially pisses off every user not only very specific ones sounds like bad UX to me. Some may call it fair equal treatment or lowest common denominator, I say fowl compromise. | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 12:11 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | Are you sure you know how to properly uppercase things like "ß"? | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 12:10 | comment | added | o0'. | @DavidConrad <rant>And that's why I strongly despise whoever came up with the cyrillic script…</rant> | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 19:12 | comment | added | David Conrad | @slicedtoad Fair point. I should have said latin-alphabet-centric. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 18:46 | comment | added | DanielST | @DavidConrad Also, what part is Western-centric? It's clearly latin-alphabet-centric, but... | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 18:44 | comment | added | DanielST | @DavidConrad So you think the phonebill and bank examples I linked look ugly with the all caps names? If a name is in all caps, it's obvious that it's been uppercased and isn't actually spelled like this. Nobody sees it and goes, "Oh, that person spells his name in capitals!". Whereas if someone sees "MacDonald" they know it's spelled with a capital 'D'. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 18:39 | comment | added | David Conrad | This is very Western-centric. I also disagree very strongly with "If your letters/reports look ugly with uppercase names, it's a problem with the letters/reports." Everything looks ugly in ALL CAPS. The solution to getting some capitalization wrong in MacDonald is not to get all capitalization wrong in MacDonald. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 18:38 | history | edited | DanielST | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2014 at 18:36 | comment | added | DanielST | @DA01 yeah, normalization is a better word. Sanitizing in the context of input forms usually means protecting against sql injection and other exploitative or buggy input. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | DA01 | Minor nitpick...I don't think this is 'sanitization' as that usually refers to redacting sensitive information. It could be considered a form of normalization, I suppose. | |
| Dec 12, 2014 at 16:18 | history | edited | DanielST | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2014 at 16:09 | history | edited | DanielST | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 12, 2014 at 16:02 | history | answered | DanielST | CC BY-SA 3.0 |