Punctuation in Grid inquiry name submissions
The name-matching engine generally treats punctuation as follows:
Punctuation, including any periods, commas, parenthesis, slashes, or other marks, are generally ignored.
Special characters such as @, #, $, .(dot), &, *, and + are ignored.
Possible exceptions
The following scenarios may result in matches:
Hyphens may provide information in some cases, such as in the case of double surnames. You can include a hyphen with some transliterated Chinese given names.
Adding a comma to an inquiry modifies the format of the inquiry name that implies a "surname, given name" format.