On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:44:25AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > The real question here is, if contributors are required to show their > "official" names (along with their alias or nickname if any). If yes, > it is apparent that all contributor names should be shown in a unified > formal style. > > If not, we could leave as it is. > > BTW, for Japanese almost 99% of Japanese names are obvious in that > which is the first name and which is the last name. So we don't need > to ask each contributor.
OK, good. > > The names we currently have in the 9.5 release notes are: > > > > Fujii Masao > > Kyotaro Horiguchi > > Sawada Masahiko > > KaiGai Kohei > > Shigeru Hanada > > Etsuro Fujita > > Furuya Osamu > > MauMau > > Mitsumasa Kondo > > F.Y.I. here is a list rewritten in first-name/last-name style: > > Masao Fujii I have to admit I thought Fujii was his last name, then I thought it was his first name, now you are saying it is his last name. Obviously, I am getting confused, and it does affect how I address him when I meet him. > Kyotaro Horiguchi > Masahiko Sawada > Kohei KaiGai > Shigeru Hanada > Etsuro Fujita > Osamu Furuya > Mitsumasa Kondo > MauMau > > Note that I guess "MauMau" is a nickname. I think we are fine consistenly putting Japanese last names first _if_ we always capitalize the last name, e.g. "FUJITA Etsuro" --- is that a good idea? Does everyone like that? Does any other country want that? > > BTW, it is pretty cool to have contributor names that are natively in > > scripts other than latin. It is a pity that because of toolchain > > limitations we cannot display names in kanji, cyrillic or other > > character sets (in addition to their transliteration to latin script). > > Japan User's Group (JPUG) recently starts to translate PostgreSQL doc > using UTF-8 encoding. So technically this is possible. I'm not sure if > developers want to have official document in other than ASCII though. Ah, yes, you could do them special for that translation. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
