On Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:32 AM, Alexander Skwar said:
> But this is not a good idea! There are Names (like "Hans vom Bach" or
> somesuch) which do NOT have to be captialized. Actually, capitalizing
> the "vom" would be wrong. Although this was just a German
> example, I'd bet there are names in French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian as
> well which should not be capitalized.
..or, at least not capitalized in the simple fashion of ucwords().
Leonardo da Vinci
Otto von Bismarck
> Hmm, how about English?
..or Scottish, or Irish?
Elle MacPherson
Angus MacGyver
Ronald McDonald
> Sometimes there are suffixes like "the 3rd", no? Would it be right
> to capitalize this?
Well, usually that'd be "III". Of course, "John Smith, Iii" would be
wrong...
- Brian
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