[Bug localedata/14641] Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names

["simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14641

Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk> ---
(In reply to Rich Felker from comment #2)
> 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 agree that whenever more information is available, it's much better to use
it, but applications don't always have that luxury.

The current motivation for this feature request is Folks, a library to
aggregate contact/address-book information from various sources, much of it
modelled on vCard syntax. If we know the formatted name (vCard's "FN") we do
use it in preference to the structured name (vCard's "N", which might look like
"N:Bach;Johann;Sebastian;Herr;"), but if all we know is the structured name, we
need to display it somehow, and the user's locale seems a more reasonable guess
than "they're probably American".

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