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Re: Making safe file names

Date 2013-05-08 21:11 -0500
From Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Making safe file names
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On 2013.05.08 19:16, Roy Smith wrote:
> Yup.  At Songza, we deal with this crap every day.  It usually bites us 
> the worst when trying to do keyword searches.  When somebody types in 
> "Blue Oyster Cult", they really mean "Blue Oyster Cult", and our search 
> results need to reflect that.  Likewise for Ke$ha, Beyonce, and I don't 
> even want to think about the artist formerly known as an unpronounceable 
> glyph.
>
> Pro-tip, guys.  If you want to form a band, and expect people to be able 
> to find your stuff in a search engine some day, don't play cute with 
> your name.
It's a thing (especially in witch house) to make names with odd glyphs in order to be harder to find and be more "underground". Very silly.
Try doing searches for these artists with names like these:
http://www.last.fm/music/%E2%96%BC%E2%96%A1%E2%96%A0%E2%96%A1%E2%96%A0%E2%96%A1%E2%96%A0
http://www.last.fm/music/ki%E2%80%A0%E2%80%A0y+c%E2%96%B2t
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Re: Making safe file names Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-08 19:37 -0400
  Re: Making safe file names Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-08 20:16 -0400
    Re: Making safe file names Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 10:27 +1000
    Re: Making safe file names Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-09 01:49 +0000
      Re: Making safe file names Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-08 21:56 -0400
    Re: Making safe file names Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 21:11 -0500
      Re: Making safe file names Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-09 03:08 +0000
        Re: Making safe file names Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-09 08:55 -0400
          Re: Making safe file names Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-05-10 12:04 +1200
            Re: Making safe file names Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-05-09 19:17 -0500
        Re: Making safe file names Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 13:53 +1000

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