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Re: [Tools-discuss] Chinese name order versus surname and initial attributes in <author>

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 27 July 2021 00:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Chinese name order versus surname and initial attributes in <author>
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Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
    >> The way that xml2rfc handles Chinese names is broken in a way that I think
    >> is really problematic. Chinese family names come first, not last. But
    >> there's no way to tell xml2rfc to use this ordering, and it uses the
    >> surname and initial on the title page. This is actually not necessary, at
    >> least for HTML output, and worse it's wrong in a way that I think is

    > Yes, we have run into this before, and it is more problematic than you state
    > because some people with Chinese names (not just Chinese authors) prefer to
    > put their given name first (the "modern" way), while others prefer to put it
    > last (the "traditional" way). There is no way to programmatically determine
    > which method was chosen.

    > To be clear, this isn't just an RFC format issue: it hits all publishing.

It seems that we need an ordering bit added then.

(The meta-problem is that we seem to be perpetually behind on fixing our XML
specifications. At least, that's what it appears to me)

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