Your roughly translated HN name is also funny: Blue buttock gargle ;) But yes. Programmers have a hard time using unicode. It's a shame not all programming lan

Your roughly translated HN name is also funny: Blue buttock gargle ;) But yes. Programmers have a hard time using unicode. It's a shame not all programming languages use unicode. I also think is has to do with bad research. It isn't hard to check different types of family names and naming order. There are a lot of countries where they place the family name first followed by there personal name. I'm still trying to figure the best way to store names. Maybe 2 fields will fit all: family_name (Spring in 't Veld) name (Robert Spring in 't Veld) Family name can be used for grouping and sorting. But you need to store the name as the user entered it. Don't try to split it in parts, just leave it as is.