[RAS] Possible bug with short-id creation

[Ivan Kurmanov]

It could be, i'm not sure. I also remember that i was changing the
short id generation algorithm when RAS was already running and several
such super-short ids were already registered. I couldn't change them
since we consider them permanent, but we should do something to avoid
it in the future.

i guess we could use "zz" as the default prefix, if the lastname does
not provide us with enough letters. (and a similar string for
non-personal short-ids.)

-ivan

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Sune Karlsson<sune.karlsson at oru.se> wrote:
> 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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> http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pka1.htm
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