Fix initials for names containing apostrophes

[ghost]

So far just added the tests. I didn't manage to add a test, yet. Just adding the ' to the nonLetters doesn't seem to work, though.

[gr2m]

It treats the apostroph as a word separator. By default, initials(name) gives you the first letters of each word. I’d say JOD is a good default initial for John O'Doe, but then I don’t know if the convention is to ignore the middle letter for initials in that case. Is this based on feeling for yourself or is there some information on it somewhere?

[ghost]

@gr2m I don't have exactly proof, just some hints and the feedback of our customers.

[gr2m]

I’d like to do some more research myself first, but am currently on holidays (yeah I shouldn’t even be here right now :) Thanks for linking the discussion on stack exchange.

How about you add a workaround to your codebase for now by doing something like this

initials(name.replace(/O['’]/i, ''))

if name is John O'Doe, that workaround should return JD. Is that good enough for now?

[ghost]

@gr2m Oh, enjoy your holidays!
Workaround directly in our codebase won't work, since initials is a dependency of another dependency we have.

Let's see if we can find a proper solution once you return from holidays? :)

[ghost]

@gr2m any news on this?

[gr2m]

No, I’m sorry to let you wait for so long. I’d be okay to move forward with this. How about we add a special case for O’ and D’ and remove these before calculating the initials, so they don’t become a part of it?

There is another comment that makes a lot of sense to me from someone who has O’ in their own name:

We use COD for Christine O'Driscoll. Each capital letter gets an initial letter. Grace McDonnell would be GMD.

But that’s our current behaviour, right?

My fear is that we change behaviour here and people will complain about it.

Another option would be to allow passing a custom option which would be a function that manipulates a string before calculating initials. But the library you use of which initials is a dependency would need to support to pass in that option.

This is very tricky :/

[gr2m]

closing due to inactivity