[RAS] strange russian letter problem

[Ivan Kurmanov]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Christian Zimmermann
<zimmermann at stlouisfed.org> wrote:
> There a re a bunch if recent Russian registrations like the one below that
> contain a capital A in the name, but it is not from the ASCII table. The
> consequence is that searches in RAS ar not successful.
>
> 1) how could this pass by the name requirements

I've looked at this briefly. The english name in this record has only
ASCII characters, as required and enforced by the checking. The full
name has only cyrillic characters. The last name component has a
cyrillic letter at the start, and then the latin letters. This is
silly, but hardly dangerous. Are you saying there are many records
like this?

>
> 2) anything else one can do about it?

We could index the English name for this to show up in search results.
We could also ask them to fix it. We could notice this kind of thing
on input (on registration), and complain. But it would be an ad-hoc
check for this specific error: mix of cyrillic & english.


-ivan