Hello Enrico, On 10/29/2012 09:36 PM, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 02:04:53AM +0800, Guo Yixuan wrote: > >> I just hope to have my name in the correct order on nm.d.o [1]. It's a >> Chinese name, where the family name _precedes_ the given name[2], thus I >> wish to keep this order in the latinized version. FYI, in Chinese >> characters, my name is 郭溢譞, and it also appears in my pubkey uid as >> comment. >> >> The best solution for this problem, IMO, is to have correct family/given name >> and the display order in database, something like > [...] > > Thanks for the bug report. > > You solution would probably work, but an even better one is to directly > store what we actually need: > > - a full name field > - a transliterated full name field > - a sortable version of the name: for example, my full name is "Enrico > Zini", but in Italy we sort by family name first, so the sortable > field would be "Zini, Enrico" > - an informal way to address people in emails, like "Dear <name>," > > That would give: > > full name: Enrico Zini > transliterated: (empty) > sortable: Zini, Enrico > informal: Enrico > > full name: 郭溢譞 > transliterated: Guo Yixuan > sortable: Guo Yixuan > informal: Yixuan (I'm not sure this is correct)
Yes, that works. > > By default the fields can be initialized combining the existing first, > middle and last names, and then one can fix it it when it's not correct, > like in your case. > > However, and that's the reason I didn't try anything like that before, > nm.debian.org is used to feed the Debian LDAP database, so it needs to > have the same fields. > > Since we're talking about LDAP, I'm cc-ing debian-admin for comments. > I'd be totally in favour of getting rid of the pointless > first/middle/last name distinction, but there might be tradeoffs to be > made given the existing infrastructure. > > > Ciao, > > Enrico Thank you for your advices. I'm happy to see my report pointing Debian infrastructure to fit better with different cultural backgrounds, just as in our Diversity Statement. :) Regards, GUO Yixuan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
