Fails to detect name parts if suffix preceeds comma

[scarver2]

These "last_name suffix, first_name" names generate an empty array.
Gump Jr., Bubba
Gump Jr., Bubba B.
Gump II, Bubba
Gump Jr., B.B.

However, when split-reverse-joined, the names parse correctly.
Bubba Gump Jr.
Bubba B. Gump Jr.
Bubba Gump II
B.B. Gump Jr.

This is not full-proof, because some names are formatted "first_name last_name, suffix". My conversion code below would actually make the suffix the first name.

My code used for correcting the above names

name = 'Gump Jr., Bubba B.'
coerced_name = name.split(',').reverse.join(' ').squish
namae = Namae.parse(coerced_name)

[inukshuk]

We could probably add those patterns to the display order grammar -- the fact that there is no comma means that it will only work for suffices which are recognized by the tokenizer of course (which in this case I think they would be).

Do you think you can do that?

Just splitting on commas is not general solution, because we need to support multiple last names which are quite common in languages like Spanish or Portuguese.

[rdimartino]

Also just noticed this. We saw the failure with Gump Jr., Bubba but also with a nickname, e.g. Gump, Bubba "Shrimp King"