Names are special

At perl.com Tom Christiansen talks about sorting names, among other things. It appears surprisingly difficult to do properly with many special rules for each language. By coincidence at programming.reddit.com just above a link to that article there is Personal names around the world - a link to a w3c article about even more complications with names. At PhilPapers we had to solve *somehow* a few of these - the result is Text::Names. It is still rather limited: "While it tries to accommodate non-Western names, this module definitely works better with Western names, especially English-style names" - but there is already lots of logic embedded there.