Hi. On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:36:10PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:05:13AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > > I think the legel name would be "Zhang Yi" (family name goes first [1]) > > according to > > The Chinese phonetic alphabet spelling rules for Chinese names [2]. > > > > Indeed, that is also what the legel name is written in alphabet on our > > passport or credit/debit cards. > > > > Also, many official English-written materials use it in that way, for > > example, a somewhat famous bastetball player Yao Ming [3][4][5]. > > > > That is what I wrote my own name as this but I also noticed the western > > ordering of names is quite common for Chinese people in Linux kernel. > > Anyway, it's just my preliminary personal thought (might be just my > > own perference) according to (I think, maybe) formal occasions. > > Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency with the ordering > of Chinese names when they are written in Roman characters. Some > people put the family name first, and other people will put the > personal (first) name first. In some cases it may be because the > developer in question is living in America, and so they've decided to > use the American naming convention. (Two example of this are former > ext4 developers Mingming Cao and Jiaying Zhang, who live in Portland > and Los Angelos, and their family names are Cao and Zhang, > respectively.) > > My personal opinion is people should use whatever name they are > comfortable with, using whatever characters they prefer. The one > thing that would be helpful for me is for people to give a hint about > how they would prefer to be called --- for example, would you prefer > that start an e-mail with the salutation, "Hi Gao", "Hi Xiang", or "Hi > Gao Xiang"? Is there a common way to indicate that? Like, erm, SPDX, but for names? Saying, instead of just writing "Oleksandr Natalenko" in the email footer, I'll write "Oleksandr Natalenko / RMNA:NS" meaning "read my name as name-surname". Hm? > > And if I don't know, and I guess wrong, please feel free to correct > me, either privately, or publically on the e-mail list, if you think > it would be helpful for more people to understand how you'd prefer to > be called. > > Cheers, > > - Ted -- Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
