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> Or write last names in all caps or quotation marks like <<>> :) Things we don't do much anymore in France.
by Kuinox 3y ago
> Or write last names in all caps or quotation marks like <<>> :)
Things we don't do much anymore in France.
- wkat4242 3y agoOh really?? In our company it still happens a lot. Especially the all caps last names are standard. Even in many non french countries. The quotation chevrons I've seen only in some people's output indeed.
- Sunspark 3y agoAll caps started becoming more popular in English because a lot of people now have names where the first and last names are interchangeable and it was causing uncertainty.
- eloisius 3y agoI wouldn’t mind this becoming an international standard. Going back and forth between the west and Asia, no one is ever sure upon first look which is my given name and which is my surname because of it being written in a different order across different ID cards, registration forms, etc.
- ehPReth 3y agono shouting everywhere please :(. maybe an underline?
- Glawen 3y agoCaps are much easier to handle in database. All customers family names are stored in caps at my company (in France). It really avoids confusion when you call them
- qwery 3y agoI suppose I wouldn't mind it either, so to speak. But I think you should just get assigned an ID number at birth. Ideally it would encode the place and time of your birth, parents' ID numbers and sibling count, what the weather was like when you were born and what was forecast, ...
- JodieBenitez 3y agoOnly because most text editors suck.
- Glawen 3y agoAnd half off the websites incorrectly treating é or è encoding, forcing you to omit these when writing your name. It is incredible how badly foreign languages are supported