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Re: [Bug localedata/14641] Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: "simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 21:32:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Bug localedata/14641] Add a strftime()-like function for formatting human names
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:08:37PM +0000, simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk wrote:
> --- Comment #5 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora dot co.uk> ---
> OK, so is your position that _NL_NAME_NAME_FMT should never be used, and if we
> need similar functionality, we should invent our own?
>
Providing good support for formatting names is out of scope of libc. You
would want to get name declension, detect swapped first name (by looking
to name database), recognizing sex based on first name, which should be
handled by separate library.
I did not do a google querry but somebody probably already wrote library
that does this.