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I am using Stata14. The command:

replace name = proper(name)

turns "james" into "James". However, the command does not work correctly when the name has a special accented character: the first letter is correctly capitalized but the letter following the special character is also capitalized. For example "rivière" becomes "RivièRe".

How can I get round this issue?

Elixterra
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True in Stata 15 too but there at least the help at strproper() gives advice. See https://www.stata.com/help.cgi?strproper()

Consider 

. di proper("rivière")
RivièRe

. di ustrtitle("rivière")
Rivière

For completeness I also note 

. di upper(substr("rivière", 1, 1)) + substr("rivière", 2, .)
Rivière
Nick Cox
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