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I suspect that you are conflating first with given and last with family. Not everyone in the world does it that way. Icelanders use patronymics not family nam
by kwhitefoot 4y ago
I suspect that you are conflating first with given and last with family. Not everyone in the world does it that way. Icelanders use patronymics not family name anyway, the Spanish use something rather more complicated, Chinese names are family first, etc.
- hunter2_ 4y agoI'm aware of those things, but I'm just saying that there's no silver bullet given cultural preferences to compose a variety of forms based on omitting/concatenating discrete parts that can't be adequately stored in a globally-reasonable schema. The best we can do is compromise on (or completely do away with) any preference for rule-based composition, and instead just echo whole names without recomposing them. It's fair, but it's a compromise.