On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:48:35PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > I imagine names in http://www.debian.org/devel/people have the
> > > unified format of "Surname, Given name".
> > >
> > > I found two exceptions:
> > >
> > > "Shuzo, Hatta", where "Hatta" is surname and "Shuzo" is given name.
> > >
> > > "Yuuma, Oohara", where "Oohara" is surname and "Yuuma" is given name.
> >
> > Thanks! I've added them to the exception list.
>
> I am wondering why these strange entry exist. Are they mistake of
> original data entry? I never see Japanese name spelled that way.
>
> Shuzo Hatta (Most common, Passport)
> Hatta, Shuzo (Many government forms, Some achademic paper)
> Hatta Shuzo (If you are historical figure or famous leterature writer)
>
> Where did these data originally taken? Just curious.
>From their own packages' Maintainer fields, i.e. they wrote it themselves:
% grep-available -F Maintainer Shuzo -s Maintainer | sort -u
Maintainer: HATTA Shuzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Maintainer: Hatta Shuzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
% grep-available -F Maintainer Yuuma -s Maintainer | sort -u
Maintainer: Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Perhaps one of you could politely inform these two developers that they
might get the westerners to read their name right if they changed the
ordering? :)
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