From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-06-26T05:56:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp to split name?

Alex LeDonne wrote:
> Almost any assumption you make about name parsing will be wrong. For
> example, take the assumption that names are composed only of letters
> and letter-like symbols.

Not to mention the assumption that each name consists of symbols that 
are part of some character set:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Prince_symbol.svg/20px-Prince_symbol.svg.png

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