[turba] Last name prefixes

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl>:

> Hi folks,
>
> Recently I migrated from Horde 3.1.5 to 3.3.8 and saw that many  
> changes had been made to the turba database. The number of fields  
> per record went from 20 to 45, but I would actually liked to have  
> seen at least one more. Specifically one for last name prefixes.  
> Here's a few examples:
>
>   van Veen
>   de Silva
>   von Braun
>   van den Berg
>   de los Santos
>   le Grand
>   di Cosimo
>
> Such last names are used across much of Europe, and I guess Central  
> and South America as well. However, when such last names are sorted,  
> the prefixes are almost always ignored. So, "von Braun" is found  
> under the "B" instead of the "V" as it typically is in the United  
> States.
>
> Unfortunately, like most address databases turba currently ignores  
> this convention. As a workaround, I find myself now adding the last  
> name prefix to the first name field, for example:
>
>    First name: John de
>    Last name:  Groot
>
> But, this is not correct. I would rather that it be like:
>
>    First name:       John
>    Last name prefix: de
>    Last name:        Groot
>
> Has this idea been considered before?

No.

> I'm sure very many European Horde users would appreciate this  
> additional field.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jaap
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Jan.

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