On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote:
>> > dbcol['firstname'] = col('First Name', True, False)
>> > dbcol['lastname'] = col('Last Name', True, False)
>>
>> http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
>>
> Yes, I'm well aware of these issues, but it's my personal address book
> so I can avoid many/most of them.
So you assume that you'll never meet someone from another culture?
Okay. I'm pretty sure that counts as bigoted, but sure :)
As a general rule, it's safest to just have a single "name" field and
have done with it.
ChrisA
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