Upgrade StorageProper capitalization of personal names
As per discussion at http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/20842/papercuts-records-with-author-names-in-all-upper-case I was trying to come up with the most general rule-set for properly capitalizing personal names. capitalizeTitle currently does not take into account things like "von Meyers" and "de Gaulle".
I have not looked at the CSL processor, but I suspect it actually has quite a complete rule-set. If so, just ignore this thread, I'll check it out later.
Looking through the Chicago Manual of Style, the capitalization rules are not super strict, but since they seem to vary from style to style and from one locale to another, I think we should lower-case most of the articles/prepositions. If necessary, these can be capitalized elsewhere.
Here is a list of articles/prepositions that I found throughout CMoS, would be nice to make this a complete (or as close as possible to a complete) list.
French:
de, du, d', de la, de le, le, la (CMoS says la/le should be capitalized)
German/Portuguese:
von, vom und zum, van, da
Italian: (CMoS says capitalie in all cases)
d', da, de, della, del(?)
Dutch:
van, van den, ter
Spanish:
y, de (la|los|las)?, del
Arabic: (CMoS says capitalize)
abu, abd, ibn, al-, el-
I have not looked at the CSL processor, but I suspect it actually has quite a complete rule-set. If so, just ignore this thread, I'll check it out later.
Looking through the Chicago Manual of Style, the capitalization rules are not super strict, but since they seem to vary from style to style and from one locale to another, I think we should lower-case most of the articles/prepositions. If necessary, these can be capitalized elsewhere.
Here is a list of articles/prepositions that I found throughout CMoS, would be nice to make this a complete (or as close as possible to a complete) list.
French:
de, du, d', de la, de le, le, la (CMoS says la/le should be capitalized)
German/Portuguese:
von, vom und zum, van, da
Italian: (CMoS says capitalie in all cases)
d', da, de, della, del(?)
Dutch:
van, van den, ter
Spanish:
y, de (la|los|las)?, del
Arabic: (CMoS says capitalize)
abu, abd, ibn, al-, el-
and, pehaps, this:
Universal bibliographic control and international MARC programme, Names of persons : national usages for entry in catalogues, München, KG Saur, 1996.