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bewilderment
Nov 22, 2007
man what



PT6A posted:

Names are notoriously hard to standardize, there's barely any point in trying, because whatever assumptions you make will be incorrect in a non-trivial number of cases.

You know what's fun? Filling out official paperwork for someone who, legally/officially speaking, does not have a surname.

The solution I've mostly seen is just inputting their firstname as their lastname as well, so that mail that would be addressed to 'Mr John' gets through anyway with minimum confusion or needing special cases in code.

I have heard of insanity of systems not letting you have an identical firstname and lastname, which is the real horror.

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