A package for presenting person names
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A package for presenting person names
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Re: A package for presenting person names
#2Interesting that you as a Dutchman did not model Tussenvoegsel, which is unique to Anglosaksian names and in particular Dutch, Belgian and German names. Handling of them is unique within these cultures. It should also not be confused with infix.
Re: A package for presenting person names
#3Is `$name->sorted` incorrect? I would have thought it sorted on family name, not middle name?
For example, "Alice Betty Cass" should be sorted as "Cass, Alice Betty". The example given would sort it as "Betty Cass, Alice". That would only make sense if the surname was double-barrelled. e.g. Alice Betty-Cass.
Re: A package for presenting person names
#4Interesting that you as a Dutchman did not model Tussenvoegsel, which is unique to Anglosaksian names and in particular Dutch, Belgian and German names. Handling of them is unique within these cultures. It should also not be confused with infix.
You are totally right! But it would make the logic way more complex than it is right now. I have as "tussenvoegsel" already two words, but how to handle also last names containing two words as well.
Most of the time a distinct between first and last name is already enough for presentational purposes.
Re: A package for presenting person names
#5I think trying to split names into such parts is a losing battle. If you need to split it up ideally I think the user should have a say on how their name is presented.
Re: A package for presenting person names
#6I would be interested in seeing a "level of compliance table" of this piece of software (or its Ruby ancestor) against each of the falsehoods programmers believe about names [1]
[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Re: A package for presenting person names
#7I'd only use something like this to fill out default name variants, and allow users to edit those variants (or have it be editable by an admin, if you're storing customer names in something that isn't directly customer-facing), considering these: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=falsehoods+programmers+believe+abo...
Re: A package for presenting person names
#8Is `$name->sorted` incorrect? I would have thought it sorted on family name, not middle name? For example, "Alice Betty Cass" should be sorted as "Cass, Alice Betty". The example given would sort it as "Betty Cass, Alice". That would only make sense if the surname was double-barrelled. e.g. Alice Betty-Cass.
...unless "Betty Cass" is a two-word, non-hyphenated surname. Yes, they also exist.
Re: A package for presenting person names
#9I would be interested in seeing a "level of compliance table" of this piece of software (or its Ruby ancestor) against each of the falsehoods programmers believe about names [1] [1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Seeing as it has the following code sample I'm going to guess "not well".
new PersonName($this->first_name, $this->last_name);
Re: A package for presenting person names
#10The simplest solution to storing people's names is a standard character field of reasonable length. Perhaps another one for "legal name" if needed. Maintaining a `tzdata` equivalent for names is a losing battle IMHO