Re: Personal names and forms of address

This might help.

https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/archiving/tag-library/1.1d1/n-6pn0.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/namesAndAddresses.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/xnal.html
http://xml.coverpages.org/ciml.html

Regards,
Makoto

2018-02-14 15:32 GMT+09:00 Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>:

> Hello Behnam,
>
> On 2018/02/14 08:57, Behnam Esfahbod wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> In "Localization vs. Internationalization
>> <https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-i18n>", we have "handling
>> of
>> personal names and forms of address" listed under i18n topics, but I
>> cannot
>> find any other resources on the topic on W3C i18n docs. So, wondering if
>> we
>> have any document that gets to more details.
>>
>> And, in general, are there any good resources on the topic online or in
>> any
>> books?
>>
>
> Here is what I was able to remember:
>
> Some specifications of other WGs came up with field names "first name" and
> "last name". We advised them to use "given name" and "family name". That
> was a long time ago, and is actually not good enough.
>
> I think later, the advice was to have free-form fields for names, maybe
> different fields for different usages (e.g. name on billing address, name
> on bagde/lanyard,...). But I'm not sure to what extent such advice was ever
> written up or codified.
>
> I remember having reviewed and/or listened to various talks at Unicode
> conferences about names or addresses (which include names). I seem to
> remember that Addison gave such a talk.
>
> Regards,   Martin.
>
>


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