On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Ivan Kurmanov wrote:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Christian Zimmermann <zimmermann@stlouisfed.org> wrote:
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
How do you know? I've checked these ones and I don't see a cyrillic letter in their name:
Arslanov, Vasily Artem'eva, Lidiya Baranenkova, Taisiya Baranov, Eduard
Very low tech answer: when I get the confirmation email and read it using putty using a windows machine, the name appears with an illegible blurb for all capital A's. And in those cases, the search does not find there works, even though they got the right name variations (except for that letter). Try with Аnatolij Ivanovich Аrkhipov. A manual search for A. Arkhipov (as cut-and-pasted form the name variations) yields no result. When I type A. Arkhipov myself, there are 7 results, including 3 with the exact name variation...
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