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

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

I consulted the vCard format used by iPhone and Android.
They seem to use X-PHONETIC-FIRST-NAME, X-PHONETIC-LAST-NAME instead
of SORT-STRING, which has been used by Japanese classic cell phones.
I think it would be better for OpenSync to use these fields.

2009/6/15 HIRANO Takahito <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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