On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:49:24PM +0000, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote:
> This is a solution, though a wrong one. The ideia of a first name, a > middle name and a last name isn't correct for every > countries/cultures. > > > Not sure what it would make of a serious Spanish name like Pablo Diego José > > Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la > > Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, though. > > I don't think any software would be able to know what to do with such name. Simple, use a pointer to an arbitrary length string. For that matter, the software used to email it worked fine. A name structure could have a type field that enumerated how the name was constructed. Likewise, the set of subnames are of a finite set of types: family personal title matrilineal patrilineal etc. It's an interesting, but solvable problem. > > -- > Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta > ille nihil dubitat quem nulla scientia dictat > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
