From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 3 11:26: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108FD37B66F for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA10549; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:25:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:25:54 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003031925.UAA10549@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/contrib chapter.sgml X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <89p311$30gi$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Akinori -Aki- MUSHA 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message