On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Christian Zimmermann <zimmermann@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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