On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Korbinian Preisler <[email protected]> wrote: > There are cases where only the last name or the first name ist used. > Like in the salutation: "Dear Mr. Wright" or "Dear Monika"
Except that, think about countries like Brazil where people have many surnames, like Arlindo Milton de Sousa Santos, if you put it like a unique name you will never been able to see what his surname is. > > 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
