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It’s fundamentally language specific, so any comprehensive solution is going to need to interface with the localization system. Really, names should be keyed b
by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s fundamentally language specific, so any comprehensive solution is going to need to interface with the localization system. Really, names should be keyed by (user, language, tag) triples, where the localization defines the acceptable tags based on language requirements. For example, a single person may need their name stored as:
en:disp Eric
is:disp:nf Eiríkur
is:disp:þf Eirík
is:disp:þgf Eiríki
is:disp:ef Eiríks
Designing a UI to collect this information is left as an exercise for the reader.
- dkersten 7y agoSince asking a user to enter every possible variant is unwieldy and without doing so, the problem is unsolvable, I’ll stick with my original suggestion of using a single field. Yes, some names will break, but far fewer than if first and last names are required.