On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:31:09AM +0100, Bert Verhees wrote: > > Op donderdag 10 maart 2005 13:48, schreef Karsten Hilbert: > > > There are no fixed patterns for names or naming conventions. > > > There are many societies where there are no 'Family' names at > > > all. Some have Tribe names in lieu, some with father's or > > > village name as 'names' somewhere wedged in the name string. > > > Some with just unique names with nothing else. To add to this > > > confusion you would then have to find sub-components for nick > > > names and aliases. > > > > Yes, the whole gamut :-) > > > > In GnuMed we deal with it like this: > > Where do you put initials and how do you qualify them as such so they can be > recognized in an automated process. We don't have dedicated initials support. Most of the time (I know no other use) initials are the first character of the first name(s). So we either store them as first names (if we don't know the first name but know the initial) or we do not store them.
I do not completely understand why you need to be able to *process* initials ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
