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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Paul Novitski
Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
http://juniperwebcraft.com
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