Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:25:54 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/contrib chapter.sgml Message-ID: <200003031925.UAA10549@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <89p311$30gi$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org> wrote in list.freebsd-chat:
> Although it's difficult to guess male or female by a Japanese name
> written in alphabets, I'd show some simple rules... (Sort of the first
> match wins principle applies)
Thankyou very much, that's a very helpful set of rules.
On a related isue, I'm sometimes confused as to what is the
"first name" and what is the "last name" (surname). It seems
that there is a convention that Japanese surnames are written
in all uppercase letters -- is that right?
Regards
Oliver
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