Re: "family name, personal name" in devel/people
Hi,
From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
Subject: Re: "family name, personal name" in devel/people
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:48:35 -0800
> > > "Shuzo, Hatta", where "Hatta" is surname and "Shuzo" is given name.
> > > "Yuuma, Oohara", where "Oohara" is surname and "Yuuma" is given name.
>
> I am wondering why these strange entry exist. Are they mistake of
> original data entry? I never see Japanese name spelled that way.
It is because the web page is automatically generated by a script
from developers database on db.debian.org . The script assumes
the first part of name is given name and the last part is family
name. Since there are many names which don't follow the assumption,
the script has many exception handlers. Josip added two exception
handlers and the page will be fixed in the next build.
You know, some Japanese people write names in their native order,
"Family Given", and such expressions exist in db.debian.org database.
... but I checked the script
(klecker:/org/www.debian.org/cron/people_scripts/people.pl) and
I couldn't find additional handlers.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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