[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wheeler) writes: > Well, I admit that the terms are Amero-centric, and they suggest an > order, as well. But the format placeholders are simple strings (%f, > %m, %l, etc.), and to a certain extent, they can be considered > arbitrary. I wouldn't want to change those, but would have no > objection to changing what they're called in the docs, provided some > more or less universally neutral terms could be put forward. > > Maybe I should just go through my anthropology texts and look for > kinship terminology used in that discipline... > > At any rate, even if the docs change, I don't think that the interface > would change in the slightest.
Even within the Amero-centric paradigm there are still some scenarios your module may not handle (correct me if I'm wrong): * Two or more middle names (e.g. George Herbert Walker Bush, British nobility/royalty, etc.) * No middle name * Only a middle initial (e.g. Harry S. Truman, Bullwinkle J. Moose) * First initial, goes by middle name (e.g. my mom, D. Colleen Ward) * Last name is two words (e.g. a friend of mine, Joydeep Roy Chowdhury; his last name is "Roy Chowdhury") --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Emerson
