On 08/03/2017 22:10, Chris Angelico wrote:
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 :)

Chris: I think that remark was uncalled for. You'd made a perfectly valid point about names not always working how we think. At that point, I think it's up to each person to decide their own approach based on their own knowledge of their own circumstances.

TJG
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