Re: Regarding call Chinese names
John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Thu, 11 July 2013 15:44 UTC
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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:44:10 -0400
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Regarding call Chinese names
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--On Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:26 -0400 Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > > From: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> > > > I think I've seen Chinese names written in both orders. > That is, > sometimes "Hui Deng" will be written "Deng > Hui". Am I right? Does this > happen often? > > I'm not certain about Chinese, but I know that with Japanese > names, which have the same issue (family name first in native > language), both orders happen a fair amount. (This also > happens with Hungarian names, which also use family-first - > rare in the West, but it does happen.) >... Not that rare if one includes "family name in the middle" as another case that is unusual relative to "normal English" usage. Worse, the "standard" convention for expressing a Chinese names in Latin characters differs among Chinese-speaking populations/ countries. One can usually deduce which one is the family name/ surname from context (not limited to knowing a "certain amount about the language, but it sometimes requires a lot of context. And, as you know, the "most family names are one character and most personal names are more than one" rule mentioned in the draft works for Chinese names but not for Japanese ones. Incidentally, purging "first name" and "last name" from our vocabulary would be a big step in avoiding confusion. > Hence the common practise in some academic circles of giving > the family name in all capitals, to show which it is. So > whether you see Junichiro KOIZUMI or KOIZUMI Junichiro, you > know what you're seeing. Not just in academic circles but in some UN ones and elsewhere. I strongly recommend wider adoption of this convention and note that it has been used in some RFCs (but not consistently). > Maybe the IETF should adopt that practise in, e.g., attendee > lists? > > I'm not sure what to do about e.g. RFC's - there's a pretty > strict "X. Yyyy" form for names, where X is the given initial, > the Yyyy the family name. Do we want to change that, or just > say 'sorry, family-first people, you'll have to mangle your > name to fit the RFC format'? The upper-case family name convention helps if there is any possible ambiguity. I also note that this is all sufficiently confusing that at least one RFC was published with "First-letter-of-family-name. Personal-name" for the editor. Comments to the RSE might be in order and some of the suggestions in this draft probably belong in the Style Guide, especially as things evolve toward having author/editor names in their original scripts. >... > Do we want to encourage people to do the capitalization in > their email addresses (the full-name part, not the mailbox > name part), so that people know? That's obviously not under > our control, but we might _suggest_ it. Indeed. Folks, might I encourage making editorial and similar suggestions in notes to the authors rather than trying to edit the document on the IETF list? best, john
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