Florian Diesch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
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In Germany von is just a part of the name since 1919 when the nobility
was abolished by law.
Thanks - was not aware of this - 1919 - just after the Great War, 1914-1918...
- Hendrik
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Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hendrik van
Rooyen wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I wonder if we need another
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hendrik van
Rooyen wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I wonder if we need another middle field for holding the bin/binte
part
Hendrik van Rooyen schreef:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hendrik van
Rooyen wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I wonder if we need another middle field for holding
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
Theerasak Photha wrote:
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
John J. Lee wrote:
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
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?
You'd think
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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).
NO! - I think of my surname as van Rooyen - its only a
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John
Machin wrote:
Two problems so far:
(1) If you then assume that you should print the phone directory in
order of family name, that's not appropriate in some places e.g.
Iceland; neither is addressing Jon Jonsson as Mr Jonsson, and
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hendrik van
Rooyen wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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).
Steve Holden wrote:
Don't forget the UK, where the scots are accommodated by filing Mc
before Mac everywhere except the 'phone book, where IIRC they are
treated as equivalent.
Same/similar phone book treatment here in Australia -- Mc is treated as
though it were spelled Mac. An interesting
Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
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In the days of paper filing (I actually took Shorthand, and a
Business Machines Filing course in High School to avoid Phys.Ed.) the
training for things like oriental names was to choose one for surname.
This
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
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?
You'd think some standards body would
John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
This is all a bit OT. Before we close the thread down
Do you have a warrant for that?
, let me leave
you with one warning:
Beware of enthusiastic maintenance programmers on a mission to clean up
the dirty names in your database:
E.g. (1) Karim
John J. Lee wrote:
John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
This is all a bit OT. Before we close the thread down
Do you have a warrant for that?
I have some signed-but-otherwise-blank warrants, but I'm saving them
for other threads :-)
, let me leave
you with one warning:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve
Holden wrote:
John Machin wrote:
[lots of explanation about peculiarities of people's names]
While I don't dispute any of this erudite display of esoteric
nomenclature wisdom the fact remains that many (predominantly Western)
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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?
You'd think some standards body would have
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John
Machin wrote:
Two problems so far:
(1) If you then assume that you should print the phone directory in
order of family name, that's not appropriate in some places e.g.
Iceland; neither is addressing Jon Jonsson as Mr Jonsson, and BTW it
can be their
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve
Holden wrote:
John Machin wrote:
[lots of explanation about peculiarities of people's names]
While I don't dispute any of this erudite display of esoteric
nomenclature wisdom the fact remains that many (predominantly Western)
databases do tend to use
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve
Holden wrote:
John Machin wrote:
[lots of explanation about peculiarities of people's names]
While I don't dispute any of this erudite display of esoteric
nomenclature wisdom the fact remains that many (predominantly
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