Re: future of developers list
Hi,
From: Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au>
Subject: Re: future of developers list
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:10:38 +0800
> - one field for the name to be displayed in the Western convention
> - one field for the name to be displayed in the local convention (and
> optionally a different character set
How about the current way ("Family, Given") instead of "Western convention"?
I think it is a good compromise, because the comma implies that the whole
expression itself ("Family, Given") is not the complete native name, and
can be free from the name order flamewar.
IMO, the reason why we need "Western" field is that we cannot read all
characters in the world while all of us are expected to be able to read
ASCII alphabets. If my name would be shown only in native Kanji, many
people in the world could not even write my name. Also, I cannot read
nor write Arabic/Hebrew/Thai/Armenian characters.
The second field (local convention) can also include Western, like other
local conventions, of course. However, if the "different character set"
is not achieved, I don't think this is worthwhile to be implemented using
some labor.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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