[RAS] Possible bug with short-id creation

[Sune Karlsson]

I just stumbled across what might be a bug (or feature 8-) in how 
short-ids are generated. It is my understanding that the short-id is 
generated by concatenating 'p', the first two ascii characters in the 
last name and a sequence number. But there is at least one registered 
person with less than two ascii characters in the registered last name, 
http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pa1.htm, leading to an unexpected form 
for the short-id 'pa1'.

It is probably highly unusual but I guess possible for someone to have a 
"western" last name with no ascii characters. If such a person registers 
and does not provide an "english" version of the name we could end up 
with a short-id 'p1' and that causes problems given the way the files 
are organized in the per archive.

/Sune
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Sune Karlsson                       New e-mail: Sune.Karlsson at oru.se
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http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pka1.htm