Gwen,
> Hello tbbeta,
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018, at 10:13:46 [GMT -0400] (which was 16:13 where I
> live) Gleason wrote:
>> I confess my ignorance of what is acceptable in Germany. The point being
>> that humans can look at
>> von Zweig and know that von is part of the last name. Computers
>> don't know that. Out of 7 billion
>> people now with us, how many will have middle name von? or van?
>> How can a computer tell the difference?
>> What about Spaniards with 5 or 6 names any of which could possibly
>> be van or von or de? Not that those names
>> would have the same significance as von to a German.
> If i enter "von Zwerg" in the field Last name it **is** the Lastname
> to be used.
> I mean, the address book is a database, no a guessing instrument for a
> program which think users are dumb.
> The computer does not have to guess what i could mean!
> And trust me there is no computer rule (Regex) or mail RFC which
> defines what a last name is made of.
> I think the splitting to last word of data "Last name" in addressbook
> is a bug. Or a bas feature.
> All my templates trust on %XXLMName is the data from "Last Name" field
> of adresses.
> Currently the macro %XXLName is unusable in mail templates to some of
> my customers. :(
True, if the name is entered in your address book, TB does have a way to know.
It is worth mentioning
that such lookups are unreliable though. A difference of one letter in
spelling or an extra space, etc
can cause the lookup to fail, computers being endlessly dumb and insisting on
doing exactly what
we tell them. A human would know better.
--
Gleason
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