Re: Phone numbers and form fields

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: Phone numbers and form fields
Date: 05:58 on 04 Mar 2005
Philip Newton wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:33:24 +0100, Rhesa Rozendaal <rhesa@xxxxxx.xx> wrote:
> 
>>I just moved to Norway. My address has no street name, and no house
>>number (it's a small village, so the postman knows me personally). Try
>>ordering anything off the web, it can't be done.
> 
> 
> I can only vaguely imagine the pain that people must go through who
> have only one name, none of this "family name" business, when filling
> out forms that require everyone to have a given name and a family
> name. What do they put? "Suharto Suharto"?

I have a Tamil colleague who has only name, his own, I guess it counts
as "first name".  This causes him no end of fun in forms and databases.
He has settled on a solution where he uses the initial of his father's
"first name" as his "family name".

> Though the more hateful ones assume that everyone has a middle initial...
> 
> Cheers,


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