Am Donnerstag, den 19.11.2009, 16:33 +0100 schrieb Cédric Krier: > On 19/11/09 06:31 -0800, Stephan Reihle wrote: > > > > > > On 19 Nov., 14:34, Cédric Krier <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 19/11/09 14:26 +0100, Sasa Ostrouska wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > In which business case will you use a surname or first name? > > > > Well, there will be some CRM-features in the future, at least as far > > as I understood. Related to this use is the need to compose some more > > sophisticated OO-templates, where for example the field "name" will > > surely appear in the middle of the text as a personal address. Using > > "Mr. John Doe" in this place doesn´t look very professional. > > > > I find using only surname (or first name) is not very professional. > > As you can see here [1], it seems almost impossible to divide the name (legal > name) into parts that will have sense for any people. > There is some countries where there is no familly name, others where the > order is > different for familly name and surname etc. > And I guess it is because of that, that vCard has only one field "name" and > another "formated name". For now in Tryton, we assum that name is the same > than the fn (full_name in Tryton) but it could be separated by a module if > needed or if someone give a good reason we could make it standard.
I think that extending the name field like we did works fine and it leaves the possibility to only use one name field for everything. So i agree that this is not a topic which we will be able to solve in a generic way for all countries. > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_name > -- 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
