[nycphp-talk] validating proper name capitalization
Chris Snyder
chsnyder at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 10:58:21 EDT 2011
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David Mintz <david at davidmintz.org> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to require users to input proper names with capitalization that
> conforms to convention.
The subtle cases exist more often than you think. Just ask Sarah
O'Malley-van Dorf.
I know, you know that, and it seems right to normalize. But it's so
much easier to just let people spell their own names however they want
to.
See also http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
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