On Tue, March 20, 2007 5:41 am, Satyam wrote: >> JOSE DE LA ROSA => Jose De La Rosa >> FRANK DE BOER => Frank de Boer >> >> this actual example may not be valid > > Indeed, it is not. The correct capitalization is José de la Rosa. At > least > in Spanish the rules are quite simple, unless someone is actually > called > 'De', neither 'de', ' la' ,'del', 'y', 'e' or 'i' would be > capitalized, and > there is no such a thing as a capital letter in the middle of a word > or > name, not in native Spanish names at least. Nevertheless, you would > expect > the first letter of a sentence to be capitalized so a news heading > such as > 'De la Rosa won a 3rd place for McLaren' is correct. Unless, of course, it's one of those wacky American immigrant bastardizations of capitalization which ignores the rules... Didja hear about the guy with the super long Polish name who had to switch/keep it to inherit a bundle? Seems he successfully argued in court that he could spell it with all the letters needed to get the dough, and pronounce it "Smith" and nobody could argue that wasn't his legal name. How do you even measure your error rate? Are you going to have enough names and enough users and enough valid test users who guarantee their name is spelled "correctly" to have a REAL test, or will you have a self-fulfilling prophecy of a test? I hate the goofballs that use ALL CAPS as much as the next guy, but unless your list of names is ridiculously long, you'll spend more time writing a routine to "fix" them than you'll invest in fixing them by hand, or revoking access to the ALL CAPS guy (or just promote him)... Any rule-set you come up with will by biased by your sample, and inapplicable to almost anybody else, again, unless your list is ridiculously long. The OP had a membership list for a yacht club or somesuch, no? Hire some sociable 20-something who knows everybody who's anybody to fix it and call it done already. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
