On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: > > On 19 Sep 2014, at 3:58pm, James K. Lowden <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 02:02:30 +0100 >> Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote: >> >>> By the way I wanted to warn you about starting any project with first >>> name, middle name and last name fields. This leads to problems, and >>> I would go to some lengths to avoid it if possible. It would be >>> better to provide two columns: >>> >>> name (their name, however they want it to be shown) >>> nameInSortOrder (their name, in whatever order you feel it should be >>> sorted) >> >> I wonder what "problems" you're talking about. > > First, if you automatically generate letters, a letter to "Patrick Nielsen > Hayden" is going to start "Dear Mr/Mrs Hayden". That's incorrect. His > surname is "Nielsen Hayden". Similarly a letter to "Edward Fitz William" > should be addressed "Dear Mr Fitz William". > > Then, if you sort the names into order, you're going to find "Patrick Nielsen > Hayden" under H, whereas you should find him under N. >
This is an interesting problem. Which the Unicode people addressed with the "non-breaking space" character of U+00A0. Of course, entering this particular space character is not as simple as just hitting the space bar. -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
