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Originally Posted by lumpynose
Then I got a Kobo which sorts them properly and had to put them back to the natural form.
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Except that the Kobo won't do the right thing with e.g. Chinese names where the "natural form" is "FamilyName GivenName", or double surnames, or de/von (depending on your preference). So what I did is creating a plugboard in calibre which transforms spaces in author_sort into no-break spaces, so the Kobo will be faced with "single word" names and won't try to be smart.
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Originally Posted by AlexBell
I wonder whether it might be helpful to add a few words to the guidelines to cover how to deal with surnames like du Maurier and von Arnim, and whether du Maurier and von Arnim are preferred to Du Maurier and Von Arnim - and of course other similar names.
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I don't think we have any policy in that respect (there's also the issue of "Sir", "Lord", "Baroness", "Mrs", "Saint", pseudonyms, etc.). And as I said, given that the current guidelines are often not obeyed or enforced, adding more to them would be rather pointless. If/when we change the forum and library system, we will probably try to be more consistent.