[5296] in Moira
Re: name capitalization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Thu Mar 20 19:15:18 2008
Cc: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>, bug-moira@MIT.EDU, accounts@MIT.EDU
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From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:15:03 -0400
On Mar 20, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
>>> 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?
Not that important. I've been working with him to customize his
signature in all the mail programs he uses; it's just embarassing to
have to admit that we're unable to fix the fact that we "correct" his
name to be written wrong and can't change it. I had hoped it would be
an easy fix, but if it's not, he'll live.
>>> 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.
My off the cuff estimate is that for the names I add by hand with
addusr, about one in fifty has capitalization that would be broken by
autocapitalization (de la Cruz, or SueEllen, etc.)
Actually, in looking for examples, I came across
Login name: mmilan Full name: Milan, MartaLynne D
which has StudlyCaps coming from the student load, so I must be not
understanding something of how this works. Why is that not
recapitalized into Martalynne?
-Laura
