[mb-users] Sortingorder Dutch tussenvoegsel

[Bogdan Butnaru]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Kuno Woudt <kuno at frob.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:10:35AM +0200, Alan Pepelko wrote:
> > Sorry, but I just can't understand the point of sorting order "Last name,
>  > tussenvoegsel, First name". For the purpose of sorting is just useless and
>  > pointless, IMO.
>
>  The main advantange is that it keeps family members together, as you
>  would expect when people have identical family names.

Or, in other words:
1) the tussenvoegsel is part of the family name (since it's inherited,
not given).
2) it is usually written before according to its meaning
3) but is actually less important than the second part of the family name

And in the sorting field we always comma-reverse two parts of a name
that should be sorted in reverse order.

So if a guy was named Rinske de Bruin, his given name is "Rinske", his
family name is "de Bruin".
So with the usual rule we'd get "de Bruin, Rinske".
But according to (3) we reverse the family name into "Bruin, de",
giving sortname "Bruin, de, Rinske" (or ((Bruin de) Rinske) for the
lispers).

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