[Koha-devel] LibLime 2.4 RM Proposal

[Jared Jennings]

> > Paul POULAIN wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In french, we usually write surnames in capitals (POULAIN) and
> >> firstnames with 1st letter in capitals (Paul)
> >>
> >> Is it a behaviour that is international or french specific ?

My mom writes people's names this way (here in the U.S.). I haven't
seen any other American people do it. Lots of the Japanese people on
the ruby-talk mailing list put their surnames in all capitals; this is
particularly important because Japanese custom is that your surname
comes first. So if you write to a mailing list with English-speaking
people on it, you might switch around your names, or you might not.
But if you capitalize your family name, everyone knows.

(d'oh, sorry for the doublepost rachel, gmail replying woes)