Re: [Opensync-devel] How to add alternative names (furigana) to a person

[Daniel G. <go...@b1...>]

On Sunday 14 June 2009 05:25:55 pm HIRANO Takahito wrote:
[...]
> This is especially important in Japan.
> Japanese people always use two formats for their names: kanji and
> furigana (or yomigana).
> So I need to investigate how to store them.
>
> I think there are several ways to do this:
> 1) Allow multiple Name elements in a Contact element in the XML schema
> 2) Introduce AlternativeName (generic) or Furigana (specific to Japan)
> element to the XML schema
> 3) Store alternative name in FormattedName using parentheses, like
> "Latin Characters (Chinese Characters)" or "Furigana (Kanji)"
>
> 3) does not require any change for OpenSync.
> But it is non-standard and it will cause compatibility problem between
> plugins.

How is this handled inside VCARDs?
Do you have more examples from other plugins/formats how this is handled?

Best Regards,
Daniel

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