On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:07:58AM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > So between assumptions made that Western computer systems that most > people only have one middle name, and that apostrophe's never show up > in last names, it's always been amusing to see how badly "Theodore Yue > Tak Ts'o" gets mangled even in official documents. :-) s/Western/American/ In German speaking countries it's not unusual to have three or first "first names", the concepts of a "middle" name is unknown. Hyphen between two of the names are pretty common too, and in many regions people actually use the "Lastname, Firstnames" convention, even if it's usually not used in official documents. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>