From 09cec18b336481ccb0de3f0fb70628f0346fdf71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Honey <me_honeyy@proton.me>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 17:49:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: strip punctuation in normalizeTitle so comma variants
 match (e.g. 'Mr. Lawrence' vs 'Mr, Lawrence')

---
 backend/lib/metadata.js | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/backend/lib/metadata.js b/backend/lib/metadata.js
index cbeb5e5..0d6e2cd 100644
--- a/backend/lib/metadata.js
+++ b/backend/lib/metadata.js
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ function normalizeTitle(s) {
     .replace(/\s+-\s+([^-]+)$/, ' ($1)')
     // strip all remaining parens/brackets content for the base comparison
     .replace(/[\[(（][^\]）)]*[\]）)]/g, '')
+    // strip punctuation so "Mr. Lawrence" == "Mr Lawrence" and comma variants match
+    .replace(/[,.'!?]/g, '')
+    .replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
     .trim();
 }