From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2862 invoked by alias); 28 Sep 2012 12:41:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 16276 invoked by uid 48); 28 Sep 2012 12:21:09 -0000 From: "bugdal at aerifal dot cx" 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 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: bugdal at aerifal dot cx X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: CC Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-q3/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641 Rich Felker changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bugdal at aerifal dot cx --- Comment #2 from Rich Felker 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. -- Configure bugmail: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.