[Gramps-users] Question about Names and Name Order

[Danuvius <dan...@gm...>]

I am Hungarian, and so is about half my family.  The rest of them are
from one part or another of the English-speaking world.

This leaves me with a peculiar dilemma, because Hungarian (as well as
some Asian) names actually following a different word order than is
traditional elsewhere.

Basically, all my Hungarian relatives' names are like:

KISS J=E1nos
KOV=C1CS Istv=E1n
P=C9NZV=C1LT=D3 Eszter Johanna M=E1ria

and so on and so forth (family name is capitalized).

This is, in my mind, not just a *display convention*.  The name order
is a fundamental property of the name.  (e.g.: Mao Zedong's family
name is Mao [yes, really!], and Zedong is his first name.)  For more
info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_order#Name_order

The closest I can get to doing things properly at this time is to
treat the name order as if it were a display convention, and display
all names in the Eastern Name Order in the Hungarian reports of the
database, and in Western Name Order for the English reports of the
database.

I have submitted a feature request for this though...

My bigger problem is, that even by playing around with the name order,
I cannot have all my relative's names appear correctly, because of an
apparent lack of "functional" tagging of non-family/non-patronymic
names.

i.e.:

P=C9NZV=C1LT=D3 Eszter Johanna M=E1ria

P=C9NZV=C1LT=D3 <--- family name
Eszter <--- Saint's Name chosen at Catholic Confirmation
Johanna <--- Secondary Given Name
M=E1ria <---- Primary Given Name

... which basically means, that the proper way to "anglicize" or
"westernize" the word order would be:

M=E1ria Johanna Eszter P=C9NZV=C1LT=D3

Basically reversing everything... of course, since given names are
lumped together, the closest I can do is:

Eszter Johanna M=E1ria P=C9NZV=C1LT=D3

Which, I think, gives the impression that the person's "first name" /
"primary given name" is Eszter... the only name in her list of given
names that isn't even functionally a "first name", but is rather a
"middle name" in the religious sense.

Are there any simple solutions to any of these issues?

Thanks in advance!