ISSUE-71: clarify culturally-linked references to name position
clarify culturally-linked references to name position
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- contacts-api
- Raised by:
- Addison Phillips
- Opened on:
- 2011-07-04
- Description:
- Section 4.4.1
http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/contacts/#idl-def-ContactName
WG Approved: No.
The section on contactName attributes contains references such as:
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familyName of type DOMString, nullable
This attribute contains the family name (also referred to as the last name) of this Contact.
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The family name is not always the "last name". In some cultures it appears first, for example. Please clarify these cultural references. I would suggest:
"This attribute contains the family name (which is also referred to, in some cultures, as the surname or last name) of this Contact."
Note: this comment also applies to "givenName" ("first name").
As a general observation, it would be useful to provide more international examples of names. "Mr. Joe Smith Jr." is not fully indicative of the richness of people's names. - Related Actions Items:
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- Related emails:
- Review of tracker issues for best practices (part II) (from addison@lab126.com on 2015-03-28)
- Re: I18N-ISSUE-71: clarify culturally-linked references to name position [Contacts API] (from ishida@w3.org on 2011-07-06)
- I18N-ISSUE-71: clarify culturally-linked references to name position [Contacts API] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-07-04)
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