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From: mark@cbmark.cbcc.att.COM (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re:  Dutch names in X.400 and/or RFC 1148
Message-ID: <9006071947.AA05364@cbmark.cbcc.att.com>
Date: 7 Jun 90 20:40:52 GMT
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The problem is not unique to Dutch names - O'Brien causes similar
problems.

We have a similar problem in AT&T, where everyone is in a name
database.  It seems to be handled by ignoring the blanks.  If I
ask for people named "de vries", I get 6 people, 3 as "de vries"
and 3 different people as "devries".  If I ask for "devries" I get
the same 6 people.

If I ask for "obrien" I get many "obrien", many "o brien" and many
"o'brien".  So it's ignoring apostrophes too.

I propose that you map Jan van der Steen into S="van der Steen"
which in 822 would become Jan.vanderSteen@domain , and have all
your lookup algorithms squeeze out blanks, apostrophes, and other
characters that cause trouble, such as hyphens.

	Mark