Cédric Krier schrieb: > >> 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. >> > In which business case will you use a surname or first name? > > Some companies (IKEA comes to mind) address clients with their first name, at least here in austria. Be it appropriate or not.
Having different fields for first name, perhaps middle name(s) or initials, last name, degree/title and salutation (?, "Anrede" in german) helps prevent a mess like one user entering names like "Mr. A. User", the other one using a style like "Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus", the next writing "Herr Dr. Frankenstein" and so on. Just my 2c. sers Robert -- [email protected] mailing list
