id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 5638 Non-Western person names Wang Chun nobody "Currently, django.contrib.auth have two fields for a person name: first name and last name. And make full name by combining the two with ""%s %s"". This is okay for Western names, but not good for internationalization. References: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_name * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_name * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_name What is Yao Ming's ""first name""? Is it Yao or Ming? An internationalized web framework should support name order, family name first or given name first. And besides, family name and given name not always have a space character between the two. Chinese and Japanese languages don't use space characters to separate words. As for verbose name, Chinese usually call someone by his/her full name (""Hello, Yao Ming"", instead of ""Hello, Ming""). So have considered of all these complicated things, I would prefer have only one field ""full name"" in database, and generate first name and last name from full name as an opposite from the current implementation. This is also benifical for non-person, for example, an organization or a pet usually does not have first/last name, but only one name." closed Internationalization dev duplicate i18n-nofix davidzhou@… Design decision needed 0 0 0 0 0 0