On 11/03/2014 06:03 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Having a separate field for the surname in general
doesn't seem to useful to me,
and could even be misleading. The concept of a "surname" as such is a western
concept, and doesn't translate well to other culures. In fact, there isn't much
we can assume about names at all, see
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-na…
Perhaps it is better to call it "family name" rather than surname to
accommodate Asian ordering of given name and family name. Familienname
and nom de famille are "correct" in that sense.
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Finn Årup Nielsen