On 10/7/06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just because most Western designers of databases do it wrong doesn't mean > that a) you should do it wrong, or b) they will continue to do it wrong > into the future, as increasing numbers of those designers come from Asian > and other non-Western backgrounds.
Family name comes last in some Asian countries as well. :) It might also be prudent to consider that, e.g,, some Tamils only have a last name for legal purposes and traditionally go by a single name. Lots of possibilities to consider. > I wonder if we need another "middle" field for holding the "bin/binte" part > (could also hold, e.g. "Van" for those names that use this). Also 'da' for Portuguese, which means roughly same as Nederlands/Vlaams. Maybe. As usual: IANAE. > There would also need to be a flag field to indicate the canonical ordering > for writing out the full name: e.g. family-name-first, given-names-first. > Do we need something else for the Vietnamese case? Good question, but IIRC, family name comes first followed by any other given names, just as in a literary index written in English: e.g., Truman, Harry S What if you're Ho Chi Minh? Do you get to list aliases indefinitely? LOL -- Theerasak -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
