At 11:29 PM 17/03/2005, you wrote: > > Richard is often abbreviated to Dick in English usage. > > No idea what the origin is - lost in the mists of time. > > > > So, if you get > > initial = D > > given = Richard > > > > you don't know that the D is an abbreviation for Richard. > > And if you do know that it is, there's no way to say so > >Well, is there a *need* to say so ? What's fundamentally >wrong with just storing the D as a second first name along >with Richard ? I probably am too much of a pragmatist.
hi Karsten depends which hat I'm wearing. If I'm programming, then I probably won't care - delegate the problem to the user. If I'm wearing my standards hat, or writing a reference demographics server, then I would care Grahame
