Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:31:53 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Names (was: cvs commit: src/share/colldef cs_CZ.ISO_8859-2.src Makefile) Message-ID: <18545.945851513@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Dec 1999 18:50:40 %2B1030." <19991222185040.D1316@freebie.lemis.com>
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In message <19991222185040.D1316@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >On Wednesday, 22 December 1999 at 9:08:35 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: >> -On [19991222 06:55], Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: >>>> I assume that this guy's first name is Rudolf. I wonder how many >>>> people reading this would think it's Cejka. Could we agree to put the >>>> first first and the last last, at least for European cultures? >>> >>> Better - completely capitalise the surname. >> >> AFAIk that's only used in Japanese and likewise cultures when they are >> using western type characters. >> >> I have _never_ seen it in use in Europe. > >It's relatively common in Central and Eastern Europe, even as close to >you as Germany. I see it from time to time in the German chat list, >and in Germany almost all official letters address you the wrong way >round. In my case, it really confused people because they couldn't >recognize a first name in either "Greg" or "Lehey". I had a very interesting sequence of faxes with a customer in Wien some years back, from memory it went like: me to them: bla bla bla bla Poul-Henning Kamp them to me: Dear Mr Poul Kamp, me to them bla bla Poul-Henning them to me: Dear Mr Poul (Kamp) Henning, me to them bla bla Poul-Henning Kamp Them to me: Dear Mr Poul, Which is your first name and which is your last name ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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