Tickets :: Comment on [#9553] Contact name order should not be fixed to "First name Last name"

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Comment	> There are a lot of countries in the world that use the name order > "Family name Given name" (for example Hungary, Japan, China, Korea, > etc). If I use "First Name" as the "Family name", the display remains > consistent within Turba, but Import-Export (at least when using > vCard) swaps the names, and I am also unable to properly store names > from countries using different ordering. > A lot of contact manager applications allow defining the name > ordering on a per-contact basis, so when displaying contact names the > order will be proper. > > I'd suggest changing the naming of the fields to "Family name" and > "Given name" to prevent confusion, and also introducing a per-contact > name order setting (whether name order is "Eastern order" or "Western > order", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name#Name_order). > This would allow full internationalization and the mixture of names > with different ordering. > > Also the vCard format lacks this setting but applications do honour > the FN field, so contact import/export should take name order into > account and generate/parse the FN field according to the name order. > > Greetings, > Szécsi Gábor (Eastern name order)
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