Japanese name use single space between the last name and the first name?
Hi,
I found the following updates:
> NeedToUpdate News/weekly/2002/19/index 1.8 1.9
> NeedToUpdate News/weekly/2002/24/index 1.7 1.8
> NeedToUpdate News/weekly/2002/26/index 1.10 1.11
> NeedToUpdate News/weekly/2002/40/index 1.8 1.9
> NeedToUpdate News/weekly/2002/44/index 1.9 1.10
which is commented:
"Japanese name use single space between the last name and the first name".
Either (single space or no space) will be OK in Japanese, though I
don't know typesetting rule when Japanese names in Kanji appear in
*English* sentences.
IMO, I feel single space can be used when I write my name independently
to fill out some forms. However, I feel single space is funny when I
write my name in Japanese sentence, because Japanese sentence uses
few (or no) white spaces. (Look the Japanese translations of DWN,
they don't use white spaces.)
Thus, though there are more Japanese names in DWN which don't use
white space between family name and individual name, I thing they
can be left as such.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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