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Re:Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” whe... by mikhailfranco on Sunday September 03, 2023 @02:41AM (#37368225)
When I worked for an ecommerce retailer, we had a title field, with some preset choices and a freeform other option.

The sw dev looked up a bunch of titles - Sir, Dame, Lord, Duke, Earl, Baron, Prince, Princess, Reverend, Bishop... - and decided the DB field could be 8 letters.

Of course it broke for the first Archbishop.

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