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A comment on Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order of Japanese names. Parent comment

Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by munificent on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:50PM (#19974166)
This doesn't work in media that doesn't distinguish letters by case. That's still fairly common for things like forms and other official records that only use capital letters.

Obviously, the correct answer is XML:

    <name><family>Shinzo</family><given>Abe</given></name>
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by yorwba on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @04:33PM (#19974624)
Except people are going to enter the name incorrectly anyway, as you demonstrated. (Abe is his family name.)
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by loeg on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:09PM (#19975073)
The comment is satire.
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by munificent on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:31PM (#19975277)
Ugh, actually I just got it wrong. Reading comprehension fail.
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by smaller on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @09:00AM (#19980652)
Which really just points to the need for the simple XML format you've proposed!
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