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2010

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. People’s names are complicated. I’m not at all comfortable with the commonly used first name / last name distinction (as baked in to Django auth) since it doesn’t take cultural factors in to account.

# 17th June 2010, 7:44 pm / django, i18n, internationalisation, l10n, localisation, recovered, names