We've been told for years that database normalization is good. Removing data redundancy is good. This is one reason forms are broken into so many separate field

We've been told for years that database normalization is good. Removing data redundancy is good. This is one reason forms are broken into so many separate fields as discretely as possible. That said, once a company decides to do business outside their country of origin, some serious rethinking of customer-facing forms (and fields, if applicable) is in order.