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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000">It is possible for an author to include a symbol that we catalogers do not consider “proper”. Look at the NAR
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000">n 2012204748</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#C00000"><span dir="RTL"></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000"><span dir="LTR"></span>,
where an author actually includes a “@” as part of the personal name (“<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/275727965/#Rohana_@_Norliza_Yusof"><span style="color:#C00000">Rohana @ Norliza Yusof</span></a>”). I checked websites that would ask her how to write her
name (e.g. at her institution) and asked PSD about this (my inclination was to put a “[at]” in its place), and the PSD response is that it isn’t for us catalogers to change peoples’ names for them. We probably should be suggesting an expanded character set
in case more people decide to name themselves without checking Unicode or cataloging rules.--Aaron<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000">Aaron Kuperman, LC Law Cataloging Section.
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