On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:52:23AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > ... and that's before we get into the horror of "what is someone's > name". Which name? Which spelling? Do they even have a single canonical > name? - people have, at least over time, several compound names - they have, at any one time, one active compound name - additional spellings can be tracked as additional names of that individual > Is their canonical name - if any - expressable in the character > set used by the service? Is it even covered by Unicode?!? - I haven't seen evidence to the contrary. - But then, I haven't had a need to store a Klingon name. - Yes, it's been difficult to come up with something sensible to store Spock's first name in the GNUmed database. > Does it make > any sense to split their name up into the traditional > english-speaking-recent-western "family" and "given" name parts? - any compound names I have come across work like this: - group name - individual name - nicknames (pseudonyms, warrior names, actor names, ...) The day-to-day usage of each part varies, though. > Is there a single consistent way to do so for their name even if it does? etc. Even in Japan, where the group is a lot more than the individual, can you clearly split into group name and individual name. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
