Re: Re: Handling caps for surnames with capitals in the middle (was: Irish Surnames)

But you might make an educated guess when you have no (reasonable) capitalisation. I think that's how humans treat this problem.

i.e.

"MacDonalds" eq handle_caps("irish","macdonalds");
"Macdonalds" eq handle_caps("irish","Macdonalds");
"MacDonalds" eq handle_caps("irish","MaCDOnaLDS");
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Assuming that "MacDonalds" is the 'preferred' spelling in Irish...

- Joost.

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