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Mirror of the PostgreSQL Europe Conference and Membership management system.
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Name tags are incorrectly recapitalized #160

Closed MMeent closed 5 months ago

MMeent commented 5 months ago

E.g. the input of (correct)

Matthias
van de Meent

is recapitalized to (incorrect)

Matthias
Van de meent

in name tag output.

Dutch casing rules can add capitalization to the 'v' of the 'van de' particles here, but never allow decapitalization for the 'm' of the last name proper.

mhagander commented 5 months ago

This capitalization is not done by the system. It's done as part of the badge design for the specific conference you attended. The system itself doesn't touch the capitalization at all.

(I believe it was discussed for the particular conference and the conclusion there was that capitalizing it this way fixed more than it broke but that it did break some)

mhagander commented 5 months ago

If there's code out somewhere that knows how to parse names from most major cultures and languages and capitalize with that knowledge we could potentially incorporate that in the code to be available, but without that there isn't anything to do at the system level.