From: Tim A. <ti...@pr...> - 2005-07-26 12:38:31
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I've seen some discussion about patronymic naming. On a similar issue, but even more difficult, does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to do Indonesian names, which usually have no pattern at all of inheritance (eg my wife, Rita Handayani, is the daughter of Sukro Harsono; her brother is Bambang Teguh Prasetyo)? I've just been putting the whole name as the given name, and leaving the surname blank, but that looks a bit ugly in some reports where you get a comma and an extra space in the middle of nowhere. This also has the problem that they don't show up in the index page of the web site report, and expanding out the "empty surname" tag in the tree view on the People page gets a bit much... Any suggestions? I'd request a feature enhancement to help, but I'm not even sure what feature to request :-). Tim |