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Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe... by dgoldstein0 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:18AM (#37334476)
I think the point is it's a single field so you don't do any concatenation
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Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe... by marcus_holmes on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:20AM (#37334508)
This. There's two separate concerns: what you call them, and their "official" name.

What you call them is always better done as a separate single field, rather than trying to concatenate the official name fields.

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