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Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces (derp.foo)
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Our app is designed to be used across the Asia Pacific.

We have members who follow western naming conventions as well as members following common asian naming conventions.

Turns out there can be alot of variation on what is the convention.

https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/features/a-guide-to-using-asian-names

How would you handle different naming conventions, so users see their name in the order they would like?

Family, Given Given, Family

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[–] Savaran 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love any time naming in software comes up since it gives me a chance to drop this link: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

Store a string (Unicode) make no other assumptions. Don’t pick for users.

I see no reason any usage of names can’t follow the same suggestions. A newspaper? Print the name the way they print it. Same with anything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Such a cool read. Has a few concepts for names that I haven’t seen before.