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Originally Posted by chaley
Of course you are right, the person decides what his or her name is. That said, if you are guessing, you can make better guesses if you know where the person is, but even that doesn't work in places like Malaysia, where all conventions are used. Some people don't have last names (e.g., a son-of b), some people use Chinese order (unless they don't), some people use Western order, and some people make up their own rules. Even western order isn't clear when one tries to handle the 'particules' correctly (von, van, de, du, di, etc.) And that leads us to ...
Storing the correct sort string on a per-author basis is indeed the right way to do it.What override are you talking about? If the sort string is set on a per-author basis, what is there to override? Are you talking about the initial guess when a new author name is first encountered?
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A combination of Initial Guess and a system Language Bias (when it is applicable)
Eg. Ln,Fn for en-us would be typical but the owner may prefer authors
of their native language books.
So the Bias is overridden or it could be set to: 1)<language rule> 2) "Always Ask" (for new authors)
Flexible, but not as restrictive as turning it off
BTW I use {author_sort[0]} for transfers to my device as it does not support Meta-data based search.
Not finding Weber,David (or David Weber) sorted into
W would be lousy. (I really don't care if it displays as D W or W,D as long as it sorts on W)
Card Catalogs in US Libraries are filed on Last Name