[5295] in Moira
Re: name capitalization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Mar 20 17:34:48 2008
Message-Id: <200803202134.m2KLY4jl020181@brad-majors.mit.edu>
To: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU, accounts@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Message from Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
of "Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:33:11 EDT." <200803201933.m2KJXB82021959@geskekelud.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:34:04 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> 1) Is there a way to force the capitalization to stick in this case?
Not really. I could put a special case in there for him, but there's no
override flag beyond that. How important is this?
>> 2) In the more general case, it might be worth changing the
>> capitalization code so that it only kicks in if the name starts as
>> all-caps.
Maybe. There's an awful lot of code in here that handles names that end
in Jr.,Sr. and III, or things like "O'Brien" and "St. Clair" and I'd be
reluctant to make any sweeping changes to it without first spending some
time looking at how many names it's modifying and whether the changes
are desirable.
Garry
