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In this case, his family names (Spanish people have two) were just "Ruiz y Picasso", the rest was is given name. So you can argue that his family name fits with
by pezezin 2y ago
In this case, his family names (Spanish people have two) were just "Ruiz y Picasso", the rest was is given name. So you can argue that his family name fits within 128 bytes.
But that brings us to the assumption that people have just one family name with is just one word, which is very much not the case in many cultures around the world.
- kazinator 2y agoA programmer who believes surnames are one word has not heard of John Von Neumann.
- sham1 2y agoAnd then there's the assumption that you'd write it in that way, and in that order. There might be situations where you'd want to use the Hungarian and write "Neumann János" instead. I.e. the assumption that the family names come last is not necessarily correct even in Europe. Let alone if one deals with the various Chinese languages, Japanese, or Korean. And probably others.
- pezezin 2y agoThat is also true. I am currently working in an international project in Japan, so when designing our systems and databases I always insists on the terms "given" and "family" names instead of "first" and "last" names, to prevent confusions. Same with the dates. I always ask my colleagues to please write the years in full, otherwise it can be very difficult to know if it is DMY or YMD (thankfully we don't have to deal with MDY).