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A capitalized roman-numeral suffix shouldn't stop no-force capitalization — "juan garcia III" stays lowercase #492
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Still deferred, and 2.4 records what it now rests on. The case signal from #289 and #516 asks whether the name's own words are written in one case with the judged token included, and that inclusion is load-bearing:
JOHN SMITH Mais mixed because ofMa, which is the surname signal the design wants, andjohn smith MAis mixed because ofMA, which is the credential signal. Excluding the token would make both names one-case and hand the word to the positional rule. So whatever #492 decides about a cased suffix token counting as case evidence for capitalization, the parse-time fact keeps counting it. Recorded atdecisions.md#S2anddecisions.md#P3.- added 4 commits that reference this issue
on Sep 22, 2026 Shipped in PR #539 (merged 2026-09-25,
120033b5). R5's one-case gate now reads every token but the suffix-roled ones, sojuan garcia III,juan garcia PhDandJUAN GARCIA Jr.repair where every release returned them untouched, and the 2012 xfail is retired. Titles, nicknames and maiden names stay evidence (Dr. juan garciais left alone). Two decisions beyond the proposal: a suffix written in more than one case is kept as written on the default path (john smith EdD→John Smith EdD,B.Tech.stays; the accepted cost isjuan garcia Iii→Iii, andforce=Truerepairs everything), and the parser's own one-case reading in P3/S2 still counts the suffix, sojohn e jones IIIgivesJohn e Jones IIIwherejohn e jones iiigivesJohn E Jones III, a pinned split. Measured over the parent corpus, 17 names were admitted and 12 changed their default-path string; the recipe is underdecisions.md#R5. Record:rules.md#R5,decisions.md#R5, release log.- added 6 commits that reference this issue
on Oct 8, 2026
parse("juan garcia III").capitalized()returns the input unchanged: the uppercaseIIImakes the mixed-case test read the whole name as already-cased, so conservative capitalization declines.Measured:
force=TruegivesJuan Garcia III, and all-lowerjuan garcia iiicapitalizes correctly — only the no-force path on a lower name with a cased suffix fails, which is v1's oldest capitalization xfail (..._KNOWN_FAILURE).Proposed: suffix tokens (roman numerals, acronyms) don't count as case evidence about the name in R5's already-mixed test. Note: a capitalization fix is invisible to the differential gate (derived view — the #484 question), so the value pins live in the render tests.