Contact names

The contact name can vary greatly depending on whether you put one or more first names, more or less complicated last name, prefix, suffix ...

Android contact records the name split into 5 fields as in the Vcard format: honorific prefix, first names, name supplement, family name, honorific suffix.This decomposition allows sorting or searching by field, as well as several display formats.

The honorific prefix is a title that can be used to address his correspondent, for example, "Mr" or "Mrs".

The honorific suffix is used in some countries to follow the name, separated by a comma, with a honorary title, university in general, for example PhD (Physician Doctor ).

The name supplement may be used for people who have a name consisting of several words. The part of name considered the most significant will be placed in the family name and the rest in the name supplement. This is the name that will be used for sorting or searching by name and presented ahead in a name first display. For example many French families have a name consisting of 3 words: a patronym, a particle and a ground name. The use is to put the ground name as family name and the rest in name supplement, but some people prefer put the particle and the ground name as family name, or even three words as a family name ...

To allow you to easily distinguish the family name and first names, the program will appear in bold family name and first names in italics.

There so many varieties in the names that it is not easy, if a name has been entered in free text, to do the right decomposition that more depends on the habits of the user. That is why you have in this program to enter or change the name so decomposed.

As putting prefixes and suffixes in contact lists should be interesting only few people, a preferences option will allow to do not display (this is the default).

Despite this, in some cases the program will retrieve a name in free text to create a contact, a decomposition algorithm has been implemented, but it is far from covering all cases, and you may have to correct the proposed decomposition.