Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-17 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Florian Diesch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: 8<-- >In Germany "von" is just a part of the name since 1919 when the nobility >was abolished by law. Thanks - was not aware of this - 1919 - just after the Great War, 1914-1918... - Hendrik

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-17 Thread Florian Diesch
"Hendrik van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hendrik van >> Rooyen wrote: >> >> > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > 8< >> >

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-10 Thread Leo Kislov
John J. Lee wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > > There would also need to be a flag field to indicate the canonical > > > ordering > > > for writing out the full name: e.g. family-name-first, given-names-first. > > > Do we need something else for the Vietnamese case? > >

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-10 Thread Steve Holden
Theerasak Photha wrote: > On 10/7/06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Just because most Western designers of databases do it wrong doesn't mean >>that a) you should do it wrong, or b) they will continue to do it wrong >>into the future, as increasing numbers of those designer

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-10 Thread Theerasak Photha
On 10/7/06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just because most Western designers of databases do it wrong doesn't mean > that a) you should do it wrong, or b) they will continue to do it wrong > into the future, as increasing numbers of those designers come from Asian > and other n

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-10 Thread Roel Schroeven
Hendrik van Rooyen schreef: > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hendrik van >> Rooyen wrote: >> >>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> 8< >>> I wonder if we nee

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-10 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hendrik van > Rooyen wrote: > > > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 8< > > > >> I wonder if we need another "middle" field for holding

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-09 Thread John Machin
John J. Lee wrote: > "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > This is all a bit OT. Before we close the thread down > > Do you have a warrant for that? I have some signed-but-otherwise-blank warrants, but I'm saving them for other threads :-) > > > , let me leave > > you with one w

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-09 Thread John J. Lee
"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > This is all a bit OT. Before we close the thread down Do you have a warrant for that? > , let me leave > you with one warning: > Beware of enthusiastic maintenance programmers on a mission to clean up > the dirty names in your database: > E.g. (1

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-09 Thread John J. Lee
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > There would also need to be a flag field to indicate the canonical > > ordering > > for writing out the full name: e.g. family-name-first, given-names-first. > > Do we need something else for the Vietnamese case? > > You'd think some standards bod

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-09 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: 8<-- > In the days of paper filing (I actually took Shorthand, and a > Business Machines & Filing course in High School to avoid Phys.Ed.) the > training for things like oriental names was to choose one for "surname

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-09 Thread John Machin
Steve Holden wrote: > > Don't forget the UK, where the scots are accommodated by filing Mc > before Mac everywhere except the 'phone book, where IIRC they are > treated as equivalent. Same/similar phone book treatment here in Australia -- Mc is treated as though it were spelled Mac. An interestin

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-09 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 8< > >> I wonder if we need another "middle" field for holding the "bin/binte" >> part (could also hold, e.g. "Van" for those n

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-09 Thread Steve Holden
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John > Machin wrote: > > >>Two problems so far: >>(1) If you then assume that you should print the phone directory in >>order of family name, that's not appropriate in some places e.g. >>Iceland; neither is addressing Jon Jonsson as "Mr

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-08 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 8< > I wonder if we need another "middle" field for holding the "bin/binte" part > (could also hold, e.g. "Van" for those names that use this). NO! - I think of my surname as "van Rooyen"

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-08 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Machin wrote: > Two problems so far: > (1) If you then assume that you should print the phone directory in > order of family name, that's not appropriate in some places e.g. > Iceland; neither is addressing Jon Jonsson as "Mr Jonsson", and BTW it > can be their

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-08 Thread Paul Rubin
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There would also need to be a flag field to indicate the canonical > > ordering > > for writing out the full name: e.g. family-name-first, given-names-first. > > Do we need something else for the Vietnamese case? > > You'd think some standards body woul

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Holden
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve > Holden wrote: > > >>John Machin wrote: >> >>[lots of explanation about peculiarities of people's names] >> >>While I don't dispute any of this erudite display of esoteric >>nomenclature wisdom the fact remains that many (predomi

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-07 Thread John Machin
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve > Holden wrote: > > > John Machin wrote: > > > > [lots of explanation about peculiarities of people's names] > > > > While I don't dispute any of this erudite display of esoteric > > nomenclature wisdom the fact remains that many (p

Re: People's names (was Re: sqlite3 error)

2006-10-07 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > [lots of explanation about peculiarities of people's names] > > While I don't dispute any of this erudite display of esoteric > nomenclature wisdom the fact remains that many (predominantly Western) > databases do tend to