On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:42:09PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 05:32:13PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > > On 2009-10-16, at 09:06, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > >But where is the (software) hate in this post? > > My last name has a space in it? > > Should you be sorted under d or S? > > Of the two van Whatevers I know in the UK, one likes to be sorted under > v, the other under Whatever.
If you look in a Dutch phone book, you'll see that 'van de Foo' is sorted under 'F'. In an American phone book, it's written as 'Van De Foo', and sorted under 'V'. In Belgium, they'll be named "Vandefoo", and sorted under 'V'. I can live with a country wide standard, but having users determine how they are sorted would be absolutely horrible. Abigail
