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We have members who follow western naming conventions as well as members following common asian naming conventions.
Turns out there can be alot of variation on what is the convention.
https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/features/a-guide-to-using...
How would you handle different naming conventions, so users see their name in the order they would like?
Family, Given
Given, Family
Good luck designing your system! Sorry I don't have any advice.
As an Asian person, don’t overthink this.
Just have fields for family name and given name to distinguish between the two.
Sure, when there’s a text field saying hello “first name last name” it might be flipped but this shouldn’t be a deal breaker or offensive in any capacity.
Worst case is you can have a toggle they can click but from a developer standpoint, that might be over engineering for something that might cause headaches later.
Could you just have a single field for name and allow anything in that field? The only downside is you can't do something like "Hi ${FIRST_NAME}" in your emails, but the upside is that it basically handles any name or name order, e.g. Indonesian single names, Spanish names with the mother's surname included, etc.
Use a single text field for the full name.