Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be

220 "Ü" "U"
221 "Ý" "Y"
159 "Ÿ" "Y"
Implementation
All occurrences of accented characters are replaced with their respective unaccented character
equivalent, as defined in Table 9, by executing several update queries on the data.
Results
Accented characters have been replaced with their unaccented equivalent in 19,934 names.
There is no guarantee that single accented characters will be completely eliminated from the
names, as an exhaustive list of all possible accented characters in all languages has not been
used.
However, no other accented characters that can be represented as a single character, as
defined by the standard ASCII/ANSI character code page, are present in the names.
Impact
From 440,206 unique names to 438,366 unique names, an additional reduction of 1,840 names,
or a total reduction of 5,356 names (1.2%).
1.1.5 Check for special characters
Description
After replacement of SGML coded characters, proprietary coded characters and accented
characters, no special characters should remain. 'Special' refers to a character that is not
expected in a name because it is not a letter, a digit, or a regular punctuation character.
Analysis
Special characters are identified by querying the data for characters that are not part of the
following set of letters, digits and punctuation characters: A-Z; 0-9; “-“; “+”; “’”; “””; “#”; “*”;
“@”; “!”; “?”; “/”; “&”; “(“; “)”; “:”; “;”; “,”; “.”; “ “.
63 names were found to contain special characters but none of them are problematic for the
harmonization (in any case, non-alphanumerical characters and spaces are removed in a further
step).
1.2 Punctuation cleaning (pre-parsing)
1.2.1 Replace double spaces
Description
Double spaces should be replaced with a single space.
Analysis
Double spaces are identified by querying the data for names having the pattern “% %”.
1,781 names were found to contain double spaces.
Implementation
All occurrences of double spaces are replaced with a single space by executing an update query
on the data.
Result
Double spaces have been replaced in 1,781 names.
No other double spaces are present in the names.
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