[à®à¯à®µà¯à®µà®¾à®¯à¯ நவமà¯à®ªà®°à¯ 08, 2022] Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> And that's about the only hint you get. I was trying to parse a
>> multiword name like
>>
>> Eric Edwin Abrahamsen
>
> Side note: the division between "given name" a "family name" is not
> a universal property, so as general rule I'd advise against trying to do
> it (and treat the whole thing as just "the name" without trying to
> analyze its structure) unless there's some strong external factor that
> requires it.
+1. Nothing annoys me more than a form that says "First name",
"Surname", and "Last name": I don't have a last name, just an initial.
I usually put my father's "first name" as my last name when there's an
absolute need to but then all the mails addressed to me make *zero*
sense since they are addressed as
Dear <Father's "first name">
rather than
Dear Visuwesh
which always makes me doubt that I got my father's mail *somehow*
instead. (Side side note: every single time my family needs to fill up
a form, we have a ten minute meeting about what to do with the
first-name-last-name situation; it is not fun as you can imagine.)
I sighed a breath of relief when the FSF CA form did not have anything
like "last name".
[ Ever since I came to the university campus, explaining that I have no
"last name" has been a recurring and fun activity. ]
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