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On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 19:19, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > It's pretty culturally specific to expect the [Mr] John R Smith [III]
>
> Exactly! :-)
>
> > it gets unclear what you should do e.g. about entering
> > someone whose family name comes first in their name.
>
> Uh ... provide an option that says how to render each name?
>
> > my father, for example, is 'Iain Allan' but 'J.N. Allan',
>
> Is Iain a nickname? Another valid field.
>
> First: J
> Middle: N
> Last: Allan
> Nick: Iain
> DisplayAs: nickname + ' ' + last
>
> > while lots of people have more than three names
>
> Lump them into the middle name (Mary, Katherine Elizabeth Reingold, Smith),
> unless they are used as part of the surname (Aranxta, ?, Sanchez-Viccario).
>
> The DisplayAs approach also allows things like (first + '"' + nick + '"' +
> last), (last + ", " + first + middle); or other format. The resulting
> string is a value like any other, which we can use to sort, search, group,
> etc.
>
> --- Noel
>
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