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Even better work on something involving families, names and times and dates across the world. Prepare to go nuts. None of those concepts are easy to define. For

• acuozzo 10y ago
  > How do you define a set of name fields for any country? Perhaps the solution is to provide two options: either (1) the common (Western?) given|surname structure or (2) an Nx2 matrix in which the key is what the name part is called on legal documents in the region and the value is the corresponding name part. An example… Full name: "Hajji Halef Omar Ben Hajji Abul Abbas Ibn Hajji Dawud al-Gossarah" Title: Hajji Ism: Halef Omar Nasab: Hajji Abul Abbas Nasab: Hajji Dawud Nisbah: al-Gossarah A database for the keys can be maintained and suggestions can be offered to the user at submission time in order to keep things tidy. Additionally, per-region templates can be maintained in order to make the Nx2 approach less burdensome. Users submitting names under #2 would be additionally required to select two name parts so that their name can be shoehorned into the Western model. Continuing with our example… Given Name: Halef Omar Surname: al-Gossarah (Here's a reward for putting up with my absurd example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3V-9Az5FUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3V-9Az5FUs)