[Koha-bugs] [Bug 24833] New: Field ending punctuation needs to consider abrreviations and exceptions

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24833

            Bug ID: 24833
           Summary: Field ending punctuation needs to consider
                    abrreviations and exceptions
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: MARC Authority data support
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: nick at bywatersolutions.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

Bug 24094 made some improvements to reconciling the ending punctuation form the
bibliographic record to the authority, however, it still lacks consistency.

>From comment 10 on bug 24094:
*If* one wanted to build a list of exceptions of authority punctuation that
would need to be kept, here are a few places to start (from an incomplete
U.S./Library of Congress perspective):
- etc.
- B.C.
- A.D.
- a period following a single letter (as in an initial)
- Dr.
- Jr.
- Mrs.
- Co.
- Dept.
- Inc.
- hyphen (-)
- closing parenthesis )
- question mark ?
- exclamation point !

If this is the path taken, I strongly recommend this list be expanded to be
inclusive of punctuation and abbreviations used in authority records of
languages other than American English. It could probably use a few more English
exceptions, too.

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