Patron name search should be punctuation-insensitive

[Dan Pearl]

After bug LP#1501781 ("Patron name search should be diacritic-insensitive") was completed, it occurred to some that punctuation should be removed, too.

In MassLNC, this is recorded in http://masslnc.org/node/3049 :

"The current punctuation-sensitive setup is not desirable in any way that I can think of. Lots of false failed searches when library staff search OBRIEN instead of O'BRIEN, SMITH-JONES instead of SMITHJONES, or vice versa. And lots of duplicate accounts as a result.frown

"The inability to add multiple first name or last name fields to a patron record also remains a major functionality present in Millennium Circulation and lost in Evergreen, and leads to many of the same mistakes cited above re: punctuation... Margaret vs. Peggy, Thomas J Smith vs. Jefferson Smith, etc."

This functionality will be controlled by the same user setting as the "ignore diacriticals".

This is not a bug, but an extension to a new feature.

[Dan Pearl (dpearl)]

All characters matched by the POSIX character class [[:punct:]] will be removed from family_name, first_given_name, and second_given_name for search purposes.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

+1 Thank you, Dan! The apostrophes are a big issue for us in PINES.