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If fitting data onto one line is essentialIn your situation, I would look into Soundex and similar name encoding algorithms. Normally they are used to match up variant spellings of names, but since they convert a name to a code, yet still have a chancee of recognizing the name from the code. Consider multi-line outputAlternatly, you could look into using format and turning the Consumer section into a multi-line component:
No messy encodings, no problems figuring out the identities of the people in the Consumers list, only a minor inconvenience learning to use a format. -- In reply to Re: Generate unique initials from a list of names
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