Re: svn commit: r10680 - trunk

Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net>:
> >- nori Kobayashi Noritada <nori1(a)u-tokyo.ac.jp ?> (.po
> >files)
> >+ nori KOBAYASHI Noritada <nori1(a)dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
> >(.po
>
> Are the capital letters a Japanese convention?
>
> To an uninformed English person such as myself, they look like a mistake in
> the formatting of the file.

No. It's a convention often used by Japanese when writing in English.

In Japanese written romaji (with "Roman characters") the name would be
"Kobayashi Noritada" (family name first, personal name second). In
English we write names the other way around. This leads to an
ambiguity: when we see "Kobayashi Noritada", which is the personal
name?

So Japanese writing in English have evolved the practice of uppercasing
the family name to mark it.

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		RAYMOND Eric
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