On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM, David Mintz <da...@davidmintz.org> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to require users to input proper names with capitalization that
> conforms to convention.

The subtle cases exist more often than you think. Just ask Sarah
O'Malley-van Dorf.

I know, you know that, and it seems right to normalize. But it's so
much easier to just let people spell their own names however they want
to.

See also 
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
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