Capitalization of a person's name is common in most (all?) European languages, although there are some names (I'm thinking of ffolkes; see http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=freer&recno=31002) which are not properly capitalized (in this particular name, I believe "ff" is a ligature; I could not find its HTML entity)

Transliterating names gets into an entirely new form of messiness; I've seen at least 4 common transliterations of (Russian rocket pioneer) Tsiolovsky.

Of course, I've got a fairly simple, six letter, English surname that most people can't spell. After I've written it down for them.

emc

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In reply to Re^3: [Culture] brian d foy name is allways lower case: why? by swampyankee
in thread [Culture] brian d foy name is allways lower case: why? by monsieur_champs

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