PaperCheck doesn't deal well with certain surnames

[teuben]

Well known problem, but forwarded to me by a colleague:

The name "Miguel del Prado" : the adass checking script writes

• Might 'del Prado' be a surname?

and then the check fails.

[bennahugo]

This is not a trivial problem - I think the only way is to keep separate name and surname fields. In Afrikaans for instance there are many surnames with double-barrel tags --- "van der Merwe", "de la Ray" or "van den Berg" immediately comes to mind. These will always be lower case, but this cannot necessarily be extrapolated to other languages as a rule...

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[teuben]

Yes, there is also the spanish culture with FirstName, optional MiddleName, FirstLastName, optional_dash, SecondLastName,
and the chinese First Last vs. Last First confusion. This is code Keith wrote (I think), and it's possibly not worth the effort to try and fix this very complex problem, other than perhaps add a warning to the warning to ignore the warning?

But I didn't want to leave this issue un-issued, hence this issue.

[ygrange]

Chiming in since I just bumped into it (for the Italian last name Di Maria to add an extra language). But isn't this one of those things where one would expect a "warning" type message in stead of an "error" type?