On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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Brion Vibber wrote:
mizusumashi wrote:
I see that some (maybe all) Japanese names are correctly displayed. I am very glad thanks to your work.
Yay!
But I have a very few dissatisfaction. Surname are displayed after personal name. As you know, in east Asia we write surname and personal name in this order.
Hmmmmmm... we'll see if we get a display ordering or if we can arrange something else nice...
Ok, quick summary:
- PayPal sends us a payment record with 'first_name' and 'last_name'
fields.
We insert that record into our CiviCRM database.
CiviCRM combines the first name and last name into a "display
name"... per standard Western ordering assumptions.
- The display name is copied into our public reporting database and
shown on the web.
It looks like we can't do much about the name split in 1); that's just what we get out of the payment processor. We may be able to fudge things at step 3) by detecting Han characters and producing a properly-sorted display name, at least for that case.
Of course this will still be wrong for Hungarians, and Romanized Japanese names may often get written either way...
Thank you for considering Hungarian. You could detect Hungarians by simply looking for donations in Hungarian Forints (HUF).
Best regards, Bence Damokos
- -- brion
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