Question

To anyone who can help, Thanks

Okay, so I have a database holding a customer list. The problem that I am having is that I have found that all the entries for the customers First and Last names are stored in all Uppercase letters. And I wanted to know if anyone knows of some utility that I could use to convert the names to their correct casing. I thought about just making everything lowercase and the making the first letter uppercase, but this will not always be correct in all instances. I would also like to be able to do this in Java if at all possible.

Answer 1

A quick Google search turned up http://freejava.info/capitalize-english-names/:

There are names in the English language like Sam O’Neil, Jenny McCarthy, Beverly d’Angelo, Leonardo di Caprio, Don Alejandro de la Vega, Wernher von Braun, etc. that give us trouble when we try to properly capitalize them in software applications. The following java code helps in situation where capitalization of names is required.

The code there capitalizes the letter after “d'”, “Mc”, or “Mac”, or after any punctuation, and has an exception list for “Macintosh”, “von”, “van”, “de”, “la”, “da”, and “di”.