[Gramps-users] Re: [Gramps-devel] Thoughts on names...

[Don A. <don...@co...>]

James A. Treacy wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:56:32PM +0000, don...@co... wrote:
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>>We should also be sure to deal properly with titles such as "von" or
>>"de la" and display these as James mentioned (all caps or not).
>>
>>Furthermore, just to mess things up, how would the sorting be
>>defined? Would it be on a per-name basis or globally to the whole
>>database? What if my name is John Trapper, but I have a great-great
>>uncle whose name was Johannes von Trapp? Are they both sorted the
>>same way (i.e both under T or one under T and one under V) or is
>>each name uniquely organized and melded into the display?
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>Are there any languages with surnames such as 'von Trapp' where
>sorting is done on the 'T'? I hope not, but if so, we'd need a way to
>handle that. Since this only affects sorting, I suggest that it be a
>global option only (possibly defined by the locale). Letting users
>define 'von Trapp' to be sorted under 'T' but 'von Phul' to be sorted
>under 'V' would lead to madness.
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GRAMPS can currently handle this situation. If you enter the "von" in 
the surname
prefix field, GRAMPS will not sort by it. If it is entered in the 
surname field, GRAMPS
will use to sort.

In the new proposal, it would be dependent on the display/sort 
definitions, which could
vary from name to name.

Don