From: Ryan Anderson Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:02:36 GMT Subject: Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again? Message-ID: <20050920040236.GB6383@mythryan2.michonline.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:59:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > I vaguelly recall seeing that & somewhere and wondering what > > they do with mcdonalds ;-) > > Pine uppercases _all_ of the login field. So mcdonalds would be MCDONALDS. > Which isn't much better than Mcdonalds, but might explain people out > there with all-upcase last names. I think that's more of an Asian response to the confusion westerners have with "family name" vs "given name" and "first name" vs "last name". The simple solution is to convert the "family" name to all upper case and then whatever order is used is no longer ambiguous (assuming you know the convention). That, at least, is my conclusion from seeing Japanese business cards. I could be totally wrong, of course. -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere