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A comment on Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe... by cozzyd on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:04PM (#37339374)
not to mention that often the title is Prof. Dr.
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Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe... by e1g on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:15PM (#37339575)
We had a go-live delayed because the sponsoring executive needed to demo the app to a board member, and would not do it until the UI showed the full greeting of “Prof. Dr. xxxx”. We had to shoehorn that into the data model at the last minute.
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Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe... by Tainnor on Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:22PM (#37340647)
Yeah, professor is an actual title here, you can be a professor without being tenured.
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