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

[HIRANO T. <hir...@zn...>]

(Sorry, I forgot Cc.)

Thank you for your quick reply!

In VCARD, there are no standards on how to store alternative names,
but some applications store them in SORT-STRING.

SynCE plugin handles alternative name internally as YomiCompanyName
(furigana of a company name), YomiFirstName (furigana of a first
name), YomiLastName (furigana of a last name).
See:
http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/synce/trunk/sync-engine/SyncEngine/wbxml/dtd.py?view=markup

2009/6/15 Daniel Gollub <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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