* David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> [2007-04-22 19:30]: > Everyone does. It's just that sometimes they overlap.
There are languages in which there is only a single name. You can semantically find equivalents to first name, middle names and family/clan name in such names, but you can't reasonably write them as separate words. Also, the order of given name, family name, further names and honourifics varies wildly. (Similar points apply to addresses. The right way to ask for a shipping address on the web is to provide a free-form textarea in which they can type their entire address. If you need more structured entry than that for some reason, you MUST make it dependent on the customer's country (and sometimes even state, province or the like) and fall back to the free-form input for any regions for which you don't have a structured form.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
