Can't parse lowercase given names.

[dreid]

Real world examples:

[32] pry(main)> Namae.parse("bell hooks").first.given
=> nil
[33] pry(main)> Namae.parse("danah boyd").first.given
=> nil

[akshayrawat]

@inukshuk thoughts on this? I have a similar scenario. The danah / bell above gets recognized as a particle. It would be nice if it got recognized as a given.

[inukshuk]

The parser differentiates between upper/lower case words for historical reasons (it was originally for parsing names as defined by BibTeX which has specific rules). If we'd want to ignore case, we'd have to skip particle detection I guess.

(As a workaround you might want to consider merging given/dropping-particle and family/non-dropping-particle or something like that.)

[prdanelli]

Has there been any progress on this?