[RAS] strange russian letter problem

['Christian Zimmermann']

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:

> 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?

All the ones here are susceptible: 
http://edirc.repec.org/data/derasru.html

>
>>
>> 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.
>

I understand. One consequence is that they do not find their research, and 
for sure wonder why.

>
> -ivan
>

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