[Hibajegyek #9553] Contact name order should not be fixed to "First name Last name"

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Hibajegy URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/9553
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  Hibajegy          | 9553
  Létrehozta        | deje07 at gmail.com
  Összefoglaló      | Contact name order should not be fixed to "First name
                    | Last name"
  Terület           | Turba
  Verzió            | Git master
  Típus             | Enhancement
  Állapot           | New
  Prioritás         | 3. High
  Milestone         |
  Patch             |
  Felelősök         |
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deje07 at gmail.com (2011-01-29 18:18) írta:

There are a lot of countries in the world that use the name order  
"Family name Given name" (for example Hungary, Japan, China, Korea,  
etc). If I use "First Name" as the "Family name", the display remains  
consistent within Turba, but Import-Export (at least when using vCard)  
swaps the names, and I am also unable to properly store names from  
countries using different ordering.
A lot of contact manager applications allow defining the name ordering  
on a per-contact basis, so when displaying contact names the order  
will be proper.

I'd suggest changing the naming of the fields to "Family name" and  
"Given name" to prevent confusion, and also introducing a per-contact  
name order setting (whether name order is "Eastern order" or "Western  
order", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name#Name_order).  
This would allow full internationalization and the mixture of names  
with different ordering.

Also the vCard format lacks this setting but applications do honour  
the FN field, so contact import/export should take name order into  
account and generate/parse the FN field according to the name order.

Greetings,
Szécsi Gábor (Eastern name order)