On 30 Dec 13:58, Jean C wrote:
> 2014-12-30 13:00 GMT+01:00 Vincent Bastos <[email protected]>:
> 
> > I am not saying that they are correct, but I curious to hear people's
> > thoughts around this topic.
> 
> 
> Names are tough :
> http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

I even think we should remove the required on the name of Party.
We have code for this case.

> That said, we had the same requirements from our (french speaking) clients.
> We dealt with it by adding a first_name field, using the name field for the
> last name, and overriding get_rec_name to display both if needed.

The best solution is to convince your customer that their requirements
are wrong.

A possible generic solution will be to use a list of type of name (maybe
a Dict field) that could be used to autofill the real name with maybe
some sort of formatting depending on some context like the language, the
primary country etc.

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