From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 22 1:18:58 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from lucifer.bart.nl (lucifer.bart.nl [194.158.168.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C352151DC; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:18:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@lucifer.bart.nl) Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by lucifer.bart.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA37977; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:18:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:18:35 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Mark Murray , Greg Lehey , "Andrey A. Chernov" , 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: <19991222101835.H37409@lucifer.bart.nl> Reply-To: chat@FreeBSD.org References: <199912220552.dBM5qU309359@gratis.grondar.za> <19991222090835.A37409@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:05:54AM +0100 Organisation: bART Internet Services B.V. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk -On [19991222 10:10], Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@flood.ping.uio.no) wrote: >Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven writes: >> -On [19991222 06:55], Mark Murray (mark@grondar.za) wrote: >> > Better - completely capitalise the surname. >> I have _never_ seen it in use in Europe. > >Never been to France? The French systematically capitalize surnames in >minutes, legal documents, official documents and forms, etc. France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, England, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Tsechia (sp?), Yugoslavia, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, and probably some other I forgot and no, I never, ever encountered the use of capitals for surnames. Anyways. Think -chat might be getting very appropriate for subsequent follow-ups. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator bART Internet Services / Tel: +31 - (0) 10 - 240 39 70 VIA NET.WORKS Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message