Re: Add mail aliases for Carl, Colin, Janek, and Pá l, for the sake of git shortlog (issue 6206057)

[James]

Hello,

On 13 May 2012 14:06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> It seems that this document is in the format <given name> <surname>,
>>> should be Pál Benkő (unless i'm heavily mistaken).
>>
>> and Hungarians happen to put the given name last in the full name.
>> Unless I am mistaken, this is the same with "Hu Haipeng".
>
> Isn't it a convention to use all caps surname/family name for
> countries/cultures that have the order reversed, ie, keep
> the ordering everyone likes, but signal reversed orderingusing
> caps
>

Yes but it looks ugly next to those that don't. At least to my eyes
and I am not sure what the convention is with diacritics over capital
letters for other cultures (the 'French' French don't generally
approve of it but the 'French' Canadians do for instance).

James