From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6509 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2013 13:01:48 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 27183 invoked by uid 48); 6 Nov 2013 12:52:04 -0000 From: "simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk" To: libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug localedata/14641] Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:01:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: localedata X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-q4/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641 Simon McVittie changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co | |.uk --- Comment #3 from Simon McVittie --- (In reply to Rich Felker from comment #2) > 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 agree that whenever more information is available, it's much better to use it, but applications don't always have that luxury. The current motivation for this feature request is Folks, a library to aggregate contact/address-book information from various sources, much of it modelled on vCard syntax. If we know the formatted name (vCard's "FN") we do use it in preference to the structured name (vCard's "N", which might look like "N:Bach;Johann;Sebastian;Herr;"), but if all we know is the structured name, we need to display it somehow, and the user's locale seems a more reasonable guess than "they're probably American". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.