On 12/3/09, fe...@crowfix.com <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean > converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies.
I assume you have already removed the language problem from the equation? I.e., the fact that København, Copenhague, Kööpenhamina and Copenhagen all mean the same place, just in different European languages (Danish, Spanish, Finnish and English, in that order). If you have input in multiple languages then it is not just about umlauts or no umlauts ... -- Arttu V.