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[Bug localedata/14641] Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names
- From: "bugdal at aerifal dot cx" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:21:06 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/14641] Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names
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- References: <bug-14641-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641
Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> 2012-09-28 12:21:06 UTC ---
I think this feature is fundamentally misguided. There is no universal way to
represent a "broken down" human name; the whole "first name last name" or
"family name" concept is rooted in particular cultures and does not even apply
to others. I don't think glibc has any business perpetuating the concept that
it's reasonable for applications to store names like this.
Properly written applications should simply be storing a single "name" field as
one string, possibly tagged with a subrange of the string to be used as a
primary sort key. Other useful tagging would be rules specific to the named
persons' culture for how to transform their name into a salutation, etc. But
this is specific to the culture of the person being named, not the locale.
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