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Thanks for your reply Tommy, but the main problem I am going to have is with the names like O'Donnell McGuyver etc where the name contains more than one upper case character.
Even worse is something like "Herman Van der Staey". In that case the last name is 3 words, and one of them isn't capitalized, but the others are. I can't think of an algorithm that would understand how to properly capitalize all names.
The truth is, names don't follow a set pattern for capitalization. You have to deall with them on a case-by-case basis. So you'd almost need a database of every possible name and how it's capitalized.... or at least a database of the ones that don't follow the rule of "first letter of every word." This wouldn't be a minor undertaking.
I suggest looking for a commercial package unless a "close enough" routine is acceptable.
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