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Note that the list also misses out on Capitalisation. If you want to send messages to Gert-Jan then it needs to be Gert-Jan and not Gert-jan or gert-jan.

With last names this is also an important matter. McDonald is not mcdonald.

Then there is F.W. de Klerk. Not 'De Klerk' or 'de klerk'.

Some people take offence at their name being written wrongly, in this list by having no Title Case going on there could be a few people 'offended'!



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