[Rtcomm] [Rtcomm] [Bug 6704] Contacts doesnt automatically extrapolate first and last name

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6704





------- Comment #7 from bugzilla770 at nmacleod.com  2009-12-15 16:09 GMT+3 -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> *Shrug* Because it will be wrong for a large share of the world's population,
> not to mention people that enter nicknames into the FN field?
> Just my two cents.
> 

I'm not suggesting a perfect algorithm can be implemented, but being wrong for
*everyone* is surely a worse proposition than getting it right for *some*
people (where "some" might represent a considerable proportion of the western
world, and perhaps there is a more appropriate algorithm that could be
implemented on a regional basis to improve accuracy).

This isn't rocket science, and while a name parsing algorithm is never going to
be perfect a relatively simplistic system would work for an awful lot of names.


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