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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by gibolt on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:19PM (#19975170)
Any suggestions for surnames with only one letter? They exist, and would still be ambiguous :)
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by xxpor on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:45PM (#19975898)
Would it be though? If all caps becomes standard, and the given name isn't in caps, it would mean the single letter family name is the single letter one.
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Re:Foreign Minister Taro Kono to ask media to switch order o... by Torwald on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:21PM (#19975188)
Place a semicolon after the name, would that work?
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