From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Anderson Subject: Re: What shall we do with the GECOS field again? Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:02:36 -0400 Message-ID: <20050920040236.GB6383@mythryan2.michonline.com> References: <20050919134838.GC2903@pasky.or.cz> <7vll1trqiq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vd5n5q9xu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , Petr Baudis , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 20 06:03:47 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHZLQ-0006ih-RO for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:03:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964870AbVITEC6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:02:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964872AbVITEC6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:02:58 -0400 Received: from mail.autoweb.net ([198.172.237.26]:64728 "EHLO mail.autoweb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964870AbVITEC5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:02:57 -0400 Received: from pcp01184054pcs.strl301.mi.comcast.net ([68.60.186.73] helo=michonline.com) by mail.autoweb.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1EHZL3-0004LB-MB; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:02:37 -0400 Received: from mythical ([10.254.251.11] ident=Debian-exim) by michonline.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EHZL2-00015A-00; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:02:36 -0400 Received: from ryan by mythical with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EHZL2-00023q-Kd; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:02:36 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:59:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > I vaguelly recall seeing that & somewhere and wondering what > > they do with mcdonalds ;-) > > Pine uppercases _all_ of the login field. So mcdonalds would be MCDONALDS. > Which isn't much better than Mcdonalds, but might explain people out > there with all-upcase last names. I think that's more of an Asian response to the confusion westerners have with "family name" vs "given name" and "first name" vs "last name". The simple solution is to convert the "family" name to all upper case and then whatever order is used is no longer ambiguous (assuming you know the convention). That, at least, is my conclusion from seeing Japanese business cards. I could be totally wrong, of course. -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere