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Originally Posted by rebl
I'd hate using full names so I guess I will have to disregard the author sort field completely.
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Computers are basically stupid and for the programmers to create the heuristics to do what you
want is often tricky and rarely perfect. For example, I wrote some software that displayed people's names that it pulled from a database where the names were stored in all caps. I found some code that normalized the names and in the process of translating it to the language I was using learned a lot about names; e.g. with Rip Van Winkle the Van means "of" or "son of", sort of like Johnson, Peterson, etc. and the historically proper way to format it is lower case, Rip van Winkle. But then we had some names in the database that were Vietnamese and Van is surname there so it screwed up with that.