Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:18:35 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "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: <19991222101835.H37409@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <xzpiu1rz6od.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@flood.ping.uio.no on Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 10:05:54AM %2B0100 References: <199912220552.dBM5qU309359@gratis.grondar.za> <19991222090835.A37409@lucifer.bart.nl> <xzpiu1rz6od.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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-On [19991222 10:10], Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@flood.ping.uio.no) wrote: >Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> 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 <asmodai@bart.nl> 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
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