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Old 09-08-2017, 03:55 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
Because "Jr." is one of the special forms the algorithm recognises, but "Le" isn't (at least, not in the English UI. I haven't tested how other languages work.)
Wouldn't that imply, then, that the example I gave of "Alexander McCall Smith" needing to be sorted under "M" also fail? If "Le Carré, John", fails to sort under "L", that suggests that "McCall Smith, Alexander", would equally fail to be sorted under "M".
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