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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @12:41PM (#19971838)
> English should adopt the French convention of capitalizing the family (last) name.

I've seen that convention used in English-language sources more often than in French-language sources, which seem to usually use the pattern (also dominant in English) of initial caps for names with none of the name elements in all caps. Is that really a “French convention”?

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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by madcaptenor on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:36PM (#19972481)
I've seen this convention used by English-speaking academic mathematicians (who perhaps picked it up from the French).
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by gumby on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:09PM (#19972124)
That's not used in literature or journalism, but in most other cases (forms, etc) it is pretty standard.
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by fmajid on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:35PM (#19972466)
I can confirm. Also, in many cases, French names are last name first, e.g. in the military, but there is a comma to separate, e.g. "Lacombe, Lucien"
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by madcaptenor on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:37PM (#19972498)
The "Last, First" convention exists in English as well. To me it reads as something you'd see in the index of a book, since indices are usually ordered by last name but they'll want to show the first names as well.
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by umanwizard on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:03PM (#19975010)
Yes, it is extremely common and standard in France.
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