On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 at 16:35, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I want to make sure I have everyone's names right before I release
> Version 1 of the Paper Kernel C++ in a week or two's time.
>
> I spent many hours working on all your names, in particular
> consolidating multiple forms into one, e.g. "B. Stroustrup" and
> "Bjarne Stroustrup" are the same person. In my own case, "TPK Healy"
> and "Thomas P. K. Healy" are the same person. For German names, I have
> preferred the umlaut instead of putting an 'e' after the vowel, except
> for where I've seen very consistent contrary use such as Andrew
> Koenig.


Andrew Koenig is an American name. It might have come from German ancestry
once upon a time, but you are correct to not munge it.


> Shout out to the Spanish folks who gave me a bit of work to
> do. The Dutch too. Even with the help of AI, I still spent many hours
> mapping alternative forms of names to primary forms of names.
>
> Here are all the names in a header file in the main program:
>
>
> https://github.com/healytpk/paperkernelcxx/blob/main/main_program/AUTO_GENERATED_names.hpp
>
> There are two arrays, the first is the primary names, so for example
> "Bjarne Stroustrup" is a primary name. The second array is the
> alternative names, and this is where "B. Stroustrup" gets mapped to a
> primary. "TPK Healy" gets mapped to "Thomas P. K. Healy". "Kyle
> Kloepper" gets mapped to "Kyle Klopper (with an umlaut over the 'o')".
>

Why? Kyle is also American.