Re: Name Capitalization

#### Can anyone tell me, WHY I get this message plus #### some others from this thread today (2005-05-03)? Am 2007-03-19 12:22:10, schrieb Leonard Burton: > HI All, > > Does anyone use a library to properly capitalize last names? Yes me, but it is my own one which I have created from a (commercial) CD... > For instance, McDonald needs to remain that way even if it comes in as > MACDONALD, or macdonald. I hate USER which some subscribing to something and do not know anything about capitalization... > Of course I can write it on my own but would prefer not to reinvent the > wheel. I do not know a free database but you can do something your own with a telephone number CD... It took me arround 5 weesks to get the 27 compressed 650 MByte CD's giving out the First- and Family-Names. I think, you have do it yourself... ATTENTION: You need Country/Language specific lists... (Someone was talking about this in the thread) Anyway, why not reject any $USER input, which has only CAPITALS/SMALL LETTERS? Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)