On 04/10/2007, Nick Fitzsimons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4 Oct 2007, at 10:31, Thom Shannon wrote: > > > This isn't strictly microformats related but I thought a few people > > on here might have some advice. Is there an accepted reliable way > > of dividing a full name into given name and family name? > > > > Actually I'm sure the short answer is no, but is there a least evil > > way? > > Depends on which cultures you're expecting to encounter: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name> > > FWIW the majority of people in the world are named with their family > name *before* their given name, assuming that their culture's naming > convention includes those components in the first place... >
The biggest problem, IIRC, is non-hyphenated double first names, like Mary Jane Smith or something, where "Mary Jane" is the full first name. -- Frances Berriman http://fberriman.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
