ISSUE-70: Support multiple family names

Support multiple family names

State:

CLOSED

Product:

contacts-api

Raised by:

Koji Ishii

Opened on:

2011-07-04

Description:

Section 4.4 ContactName
http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/contacts/#idl-def-ContactName

WG Approved: Yes

In a number of cultures, multiple family names can appear in an individual's name. See, for example [1]. Because there is only one familyName field, it is unclear how to support multiple family names. For example, in some cultures, the family name appears in the middle of the name string: the well-known writer "Gabriel García Márquez" has two familial names--"García" and "Márquez". The former name is considered his surname.

Please provide guidance on handling multiple family names.




[1] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

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1. Review of tracker issues for best practices (part II) (from addison@lab126.com on 2015-03-28)
2. Re: I18N-ISSUE-70: Support multiple family names [Contacts API] (from robin@berjon.com on 2011-07-05)
3. I18N-ISSUE-70: Support multiple family names [Contacts API] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-07-04)

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