Re: Name Capitalization
| From: | Paul Novitski | Date: | Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:06:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Name Capitalization | ||
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Applying capitalization rules to names by itself is easy. What defeats the effort is that there are no consistent rules for name capitalization, only inconsistent ones. MacDonald and Macdonald are both common and are both correct. de la Rosa, De la Rosa, De La Rosa, Delarosa. Van der Berg, van der Berg, Van Der Berg, Vanderberg. Mix dozens of languages with dozens of spelling conventions with Ellis Island and you've got that rich, chaotic human loam that's defiant to simplistic solutions.
I love parsing problems and would be happy to collaborate on a project, but name capitalization seems doomed.
Regards,
Paul
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