From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-05-04T00:17:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble trying Tao - myriards of compile errors :-<

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@gmx.de> writes:

> At Mon, 2 May 2005 19:19:25 +0900, Fu Limin wrote:
>> By the way, my name is FU Limin, FU is my family name, we usually
>> put family name before name.
>
> Unfortunately there is no way of being sure. In Germany this not even
> works for German names. In Germany we use two common ways of writing
> names (depending on context): Ludwig Erhardt and Erhardt, Ludwig. The
> latter *requires* a comma but people tend to forget it. Now Ludwig and
> Erhardt are both valid first and valid last names. Unless one knows
> that the last name of the former chancellor of the FRG was "Erhardt"
> one cannot know which part of the name is which.

He should have been named Erhardt Erhardt or Ludwig Ludwig.  Far
easier. :-)

> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
>

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