Re: [Gnumed-devel] Automatic patient 'titles' (Mr, Ms) redundant to assigned

[Busser, Jim]

On 2011-11-27, at 2:23 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

>> No, Jim and I did not invent the rules.
> 
> I know.
> 
> Rules in German are different (and I bet other languages use
> different rules yet).
> 
> We'll see what can be done. I'll try to factor out the
> order to translators.

In China, people are referred to as

        Surname Firstname

causing many westerners to misunderstand the name of the actress in Crouching 
Tiger, Hidden Dragon 

        Zhang Ziyi

(first name = Ziyi) who, when she began working more with North American 
filmmakers, became better known as Ziyi Zhang.


Separately, one reason I believe that (in GNUmed) we came to the name display 
format

        Surnames, Firstnames

is because the comma efficiently permits to distinguish a transition or 
separation.


One option for the display within GNUmed could be


        Surnames, Firstnames, Title

Another could be a configurational item.

All of the above is separate from printing, wherein the distinct placeholder 
'title' allows flexible placement.

-- jim