From: "bugdal at aerifal dot cx" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: libc-locales@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [Bug localedata/14641] Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-14641-716-3DrZ8Lk7A7@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-14641-716@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> 2012-09-28 12:21:06 UTC ---
I think this feature is fundamentally misguided. There is no universal way to
represent a "broken down" human name; the whole "first name last name" or
"family name" concept is rooted in particular cultures and does not even apply
to others. I don't think glibc has any business perpetuating the concept that
it's reasonable for applications to store names like this.
Properly written applications should simply be storing a single "name" field as
one string, possibly tagged with a subrange of the string to be used as a
primary sort key. Other useful tagging would be rules specific to the named
persons' culture for how to transform their name into a salutation, etc. But
this is specific to the culture of the person being named, not the locale.
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2012-09-28 11:50 [Bug localedata/14641] New: " bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
2012-09-28 12:05 ` Keld Simonsen
2012-09-28 12:41 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx [this message]
2012-09-28 12:41 ` [Bug localedata/14641] " keld at keldix dot com
2013-11-06 13:01 ` simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk
2013-11-06 15:13 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-06 16:12 ` simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk
2013-11-06 16:33 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-06 23:57 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-06 23:58 ` neleai at seznam dot cz
2013-11-06 23:58 ` keld at keldix dot com
2013-11-07 3:16 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-07 12:29 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-07 12:30 ` keld at keldix dot com
2013-11-07 15:27 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2013-11-07 19:02 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-07 19:03 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-17 4:30 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-06-17 7:33 ` [Bug localedata/14641] Deprecate name_fmt bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
2014-06-17 7:49 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-06-17 16:54 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-17 17:03 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-17 17:09 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2014-06-20 5:48 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-19 22:48 ` bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
2014-06-20 5:50 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-20 7:28 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2014-06-20 11:03 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-20 11:05 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-20 13:22 ` bugzilla at tecnocode dot co.uk
2014-06-21 18:35 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-21 18:37 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-23 8:21 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-06-23 13:01 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-23 13:04 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-23 21:07 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-23 21:08 ` myllynen at redhat dot com
2014-06-23 21:08 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-23 21:57 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx
2014-06-23 22:12 ` Keld Simonsen
2014-06-23 22:13 ` keld at keldix dot com
2014-06-24 7:40 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2016-02-19 10:46 ` [Bug localedata/14641] LC_NAME: deprecate locale category vapier at gentoo dot org
2016-02-19 15:42 ` myllynen at redhat dot com
2016-02-19 16:15 ` vapier at gentoo dot org
2016-02-19 18:29 ` Keld Simonsen
2016-02-19 18:33 ` keld at keldix dot com
2016-02-19 23:22 ` vapier at gentoo dot org
2016-02-19 23:26 ` Keld Simonsen
2016-02-19 23:27 ` keld at keldix dot com
2016-02-20 6:07 ` vapier at gentoo dot org
2016-02-22 8:10 ` Keld Simonsen
2016-02-22 8:12 ` keld at keldix dot com
2016-02-22 10:13 ` vapier at gentoo dot org
2019-01-02 11:59 ` Keld Simonsen
2018-12-20 8:38 ` pander at users dot sourceforge.net
2018-12-20 9:52 ` pander at users dot sourceforge.net
2019-01-01 11:42 ` pander at users dot sourceforge.net
2019-01-02 11:59 ` keld at keldix dot com
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