Yes all that should be filtered :) Stef On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Douglas Brebner wrote:
Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
no space in names sorry for van Neumann -> vanNeumann
Also beware of non-letters like - and ' (dash and apostrophe) which can and do appear.
On Jul 23, 2009, at 12:58 AM, Douglas Brebner wrote:
Miguel Cobá wrote:
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stéphane Ducasse<stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
I can unify all the message sends to Author in the core image, also I can unify the initials and name usage, but
It would be nice :) The prompt should ask for firstname.lastname and not initials :)
So I can replace all the prompts to initials for name in the format you mention.
Will this format be the prefered/oficial one? Will other formats be allowed? Maybe asking for firstname and then for lastname and then inside Author concatenating in a firstname.lastname.
What happens with someone with two firstnames and lastnames, like me:
Miguel Enrique Cobá MartÃnez
Firstname: Miguel Enrique Lastname: Cobá MartÃnez
yes it is an bad example as I would write:
Firstname: Miguel Lastname: Cobá
What about spaces?
Spaces aren't avoidable since some names have them e.g. "von Braun". Other things to consider are some cultures (like japanese) write names lastname, firstname and others have non-letter chars in their names e.g. irish names can have apostrophies like "O'Brien" and double barrelled names can have dashes.
The best way to do it might be to just have a field for you to input your name in your preferred form since proper international name handling is complicated.
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