Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:50:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Names (was: cvs commit: src/share/colldef cs_CZ.ISO_8859-2.src Makefile) Message-ID: <19991222185040.D1316@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19991222090835.A37409@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <199912220552.dBM5qU309359@gratis.grondar.za> <19991222090835.A37409@lucifer.bart.nl>
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On Wednesday, 22 December 1999 at 9:08:35 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [19991222 06:55], Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: >>> I assume that this guy's first name is Rudolf. I wonder how many >>> people reading this would think it's Cejka. Could we agree to put the >>> first first and the last last, at least for European cultures? >> >> Better - completely capitalise the surname. > > AFAIk that's only used in Japanese and likewise cultures when they are > using western type characters. > > I have _never_ seen it in use in Europe. It's relatively common in Central and Eastern Europe, even as close to you as Germany. I see it from time to time in the German chat list, and in Germany almost all official letters address you the wrong way round. In my case, it really confused people because they couldn't recognize a first name in either "Greg" or "Lehey". Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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