On 13 Nov 2019, at 9:56pm, Jose Isaias Cabrera <jic...@outlook.com> wrote:
> We still need to know that it is your last name and not your first name, or > 2nd name, or... :-) By the way, what do you do when the form says, > > "Please fix your last name: No spaces allowed!" > > Do you just type daSilva? Peter's middle name is 'da'. :-) But they keep capitalizing it. Just like the hundreds of Arabs I've seen in databases who apparently have a middle name of 'Ibn'. Or Israelis apparently called 'Ben'. Did we talk about the Arabic name حاجي 'Haji' yet ? It is sometimes a given name, and sometimes a family name. But it is most often inserted in an existing name when the holder or a close relative has made a pilgrimage to Mecca at a certain time of year. So it can be a name change. Some types of officialdom recognise it and some don't, and some care whether it was you or your father who made the pilgrimmage. And because it doesn't fit the Western norm users put it in random places. The whole thing's a mess. By the way, Keith, 'Medcalf' is possibly the oldest known English surname (13th Century) and indicates that one of your ancestors raised or slaughtered cows. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
