Error in TLS206 ASCII version sept. 2011

By comparing the 2 versions of TLS206 I realized there is an error that makes TLS206 ASCII impossible to be used, in sept. 2011 version.

Starting from person_id 1340952 there is a misalignment among the 2 files since the associated names are:

 'ARANAGA TOMOYUKI' for TLS206

 while
'ARANAGA YASUNORI' is in TLS206 ASCII

By checking on TLS207 if ind that the corrisponding appln_id  36165645 has publication number JP        11158733
and in espacenet I see the TLS206 inventor is the right one.

After a while (260K records) error disappears with this record:

1544759, 'ASAHINA', 'ASAHINA AKI', '', ''

but the bad thing is that it happens alsewhere.
F.I.

20000000, 'LESLIE * SMITH' <> 'LESLIE * STEELE', '', ''
25000000, 'NUECHTER,PATRICK' <> 'Nuechter', 'Peter', ''
30000001, 'Schaevitz; Lester P.' <>  'SCHAEVITZ, SAM', '', ''

So the bad news are that, since person_id is build by appending in alfabetic order the names, there are ranges of person_id in TLS206 ASCII where the names accociated to person_id is wrong.

EPO is aware of the problem and is  working to a fix.