Can we just stick with _one_ name entry, it makes life soo much easier
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On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 19:13, Tom wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:54:49AM -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > The problem I have with the scheme is the presence of the name string in the
> > person table. I might want a more sophisticated name scheme (e.g., title,
> > first, middle, last, suffix). The "name" might the "display name", I
> > suppose.
>
> Middle names are very uncommon in most of europe, AFAIK. Even people
> who have them rarely use them.
>
> Then we have countries with different naming conventions. More than
> three names is very common in arabic countries. Other countries use the
> family name first, the given name last.
>
> It's really the same as addresses - a generic text field gives you the
> most freedom and is the only thing guaranteed to work for everyone.
>
>
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