There are cases where only the last name or the first name ist used. Like in the salutation: "Dear Mr. Wright" or "Dear Monika"
Am Donnerstag, den 19.11.2009, 12:47 +0100 schrieb Cédric Krier: > On 18/11/09 15:48 -0800, Stephan Reihle wrote: > > - Is there a module that adds support for separted fields "given name" > > and "last name" instead of one field "Name"? > > I'm just currious but I would like to understand why is it necessary to have > this? > Because I find having just a name is more powerful and more generic. In the > world > not everybody has a first name and a last name. And I think the way we work is > good because it is like the vCard format [1] which is a widely used format. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard > -- Korbinian Preisler ____________________________________ virtual things Preisler & Spallek GbR Munich - Aix-la-Chapelle Windeckstr. 77 81375 Munich - Germany Tel: +49 (89) 710 481 55 Fax: +49 (89) 710 481 56 [email protected] http://www.virtual-things.biz -- [email protected] mailing list
