Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle the above names.
The best way to handle this problem is to not throw
away information, but rather store the name with correct
case.
Just like the Y2k-problem, it is trivial to store
correctly in the first place and non-trivial to restore
the correct data after information (century or case)
has been thrown away. And if you should ever need
the simpler form (for presentation as two-digit year
or for case-insensitive sorting of names), it is easier
by far to produce from the correct form than the other
way around.
I guess everybody knew it, but I felt somebody ought
to say it :-\
The Sidhekin
print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"