[guardian-dev] Straw poll for ostel.co feature

[Richard]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:33:05PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
> (To answer your question Lee...sorry :) )
> 
> It depends on who the target audience is.
> 
> Personally, it would not bother me if Ostel didn't support a) UTF-8 or b) uppercase chars,  as I write in English 85% of my time and can read English pretty well :)
> 
> If I was the 65 year old Russian journo who doesn't speak/write English (and I was a potential user) then it would be that extra step I needed to figure out, possibly loosing me.

you can still stick to old fashioned phone numbers, my OSTEL is
a 4 digit number which is familiar and easy to type for everyone
and also usable on a wide variety of software clients.

Richard

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