change case to Title case in IdP

[IAM David Bantz]

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On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 3:57 AM, Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at>
wrote:

> * Lalith Jayaweera <ljayaweera at gmail.com> [2018-05-29 07:27]:
> > Currently we got the user name stored in Upper case in the source system
> > (e.g. LDAP)
>
> That's where you'd need to fix it, in the source system.
>
> > We want to change that into title case in the attribute resolver and
> > pass it to SPs
>
> You can't. There's no algorithm in the world that can get the case
> correct in all, well, cases. There are too many cultural and regional
> conventions involved (MacBla, Macbla, Mc Bla, De La Foo, De la Foo,
> van der Foo, Van Foo, etc.pp.) -- ignoring the case (ha!) or non-latin
> script completely for now -- and people are somewhat picky when it
> comes to messing up their names.
> (They're probably used to the specific messing up you've done so far
> in ALL CAPS as they realize that's not how the name is supposed to be
> spelled.)
>
> So save yourself that trouble of implementing a "quick fix" downstream
> that doesn't in fact fix anything, and start recording case properly
> at the source systems.
>
> -peter
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