Nice idea. A couple of thoughts that I hope can help improve it. First, the problem occurs not only with proper names, but with any text string that is English but not ASCII. English mostly uses plain ASCII, but there are exceptions. Many of the exceptions are words like naïve that most people will accept in ASCII versions, but some English words (e.g., soupçon) simply do not look right in ASCII.
I assume that the module, perhaps with some relatively-minor changes (please see below), can handle this more general problem as well, so perhaps its name should be more general as well. E.g., "nonascii" rather than "propername". Second, this code does not look right: > /* See whether the translation contains the original name. */ > if (strstr (translation, name) != NULL) Some translations might contain the name accidentally. As an extreme case, the proper name "Z" (see <http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002480.html>) might have a translation that contains the letter "Z". Conversely, perhaps the translation might contain the original proper name using slightly-different letters, which look nicer but which strstr thinks are different. For example, the original proper name might be "Georgia O'Keefe" but the translation might say "<something or other> (Georgia O’Keefe)", with a right single quotation mark (U+2019) rather than an apostrophe (U+0027). We don't want the output to be "<something or other> (Georgia O’Keefe) (Georgia O'Keefe)". If the convention is that translations of the form "X (Y)" are to be treated specially, I suggest that code simply look for the last character being ')', rather than looking for an instance of "Y" in the translation. But I think it'd be simpler and better overall just to ask translators to supply the original if they desire it. After all, "(" and ")" might not be correct anyway, or it might not be correct to put the original name second, or whatever. This change would simplify the code and allow it to be the more-general, so that it can handle arbitrary non-ASCII strings rather than just proper names.
