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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.

Additional information