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Re: contributors (now totally off-topic)



On May 5,  3:18pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
} Subject: RE: contributors
}
} > `Tanaka' is a family name and `Akira' is an individual name.  So the
} > order is right.
} 
} No. All others are listed in "individual name" order

Not in PWS's patch, they weren't, or I would have been much nearer the top.

} (is it "name" or "surname"? I always forget).

"Surname" is family name.  "Given name" is often used for the individual
name; also "Christian name" and "first name" if one has the appropriate
cultural biases.

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