On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Brion Vibber wrote: > > mizusumashi wrote: > >> I see that some (maybe all) Japanese names are correctly displayed. I > >> am very glad thanks to your work. > > > > Yay! > > > >> But I have a very few dissatisfaction. Surname are displayed after > >> personal name. As you know, in east Asia we write surname and personal > >> name in this order. > > > > Hmmmmmm... we'll see if we get a display ordering or if we can arrange > > something else nice... > > Ok, quick summary: > > 1) PayPal sends us a payment record with 'first_name' and 'last_name' > fields. > > 2) We insert that record into our CiviCRM database. > > 3) CiviCRM combines the first name and last name into a "display > name"... per standard Western ordering assumptions. > > 4) The display name is copied into our public reporting database and > shown on the web. > > It looks like we can't do much about the name split in 1); that's just > what we get out of the payment processor. We may be able to fudge things > at step 3) by detecting Han characters and producing a properly-sorted > display name, at least for that case. > > Of course this will still be wrong for Hungarians, and Romanized > Japanese names may often get written either way... Thank you for considering Hungarian. You could detect Hungarians by simply looking for donations in Hungarian Forints (HUF). Best regards, Bence Damokos > > > - -- brion > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkk21moACgkQwRnhpk1wk47rgACg31a0iArCTSyHfQ/Sutv4zorh > wjYAni4MbNRDwgtQderCNvGjnQziGGM5 > =0p5I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
