@peter I did the opposite in Cambridge a few years ago.
There was a local campaign (this is Cambridge, after all) to get street names properly punctuated. Conventional wisdom was that the punctuation was omitted at the request of the emergency services, but we checked with them again and they said that they didn't care any more.
The local rag joined in, with a series of pictures of wrong and/or inconsistent street name signs. But they missed one I knew about, where the street had three different signs at various places, along the lines of (this wasn't the actual name) "Pirates Walk", "Pirate's Walk" and "Pirates' Walk". So I was able to tease them that the situation was worse than they'd discovered! - it's always useful for councillors to keep up good relations with the local journos.
I changed the policy to allow punctuation. (OK, to be honest, after being lent on somewhat by the council leader, who thought it was more of a big deal than I did - left to myself I might not have bothered to do this as an emergency decision and I might have left it until the next review.)
@peter sounds like the classic where someone retires and there's nobody left that can do their job. Some old code that everyone is now afraid to touch.
-- the decision makers not budgeting the $$ and time to correct the computers to handle keyboard characters available for 50+ years.
-- the programmers for not handling characters on the keyboard properly. Yes... I get old mainframes may have limitations... hello -- we are in the 3 decade of the 21st century.
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Did you see article about 101 year old being rejected as too young? Y2K not over.
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