On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Tor Arntsen <tor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 19:20, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>[..] Besides, a name of >> two characters aren't really sane. You'd need at least three >> characters to form a first/last name pair. > > I think I've mentioned this before in another thread, but first/last > name isn't universal, not even within countries where it's the common > form. When I was as student there was a fellow student from another > scandinavian country and his legal, full name consisted of a single > letter. > I'm curious, what Scandinavian country was this? Because as a Norwegian, I know a lot of people from all Scandinavian country, yet I've never heard of such names. In Norway, I the shortest legal name I've ever heard of was five characters. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html