GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 228618
Contact parsing removes information
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:04:09 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Normal Version: 1.0.8 Synopsis: Contacts has nasty US naming prejudices Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Contacts [was: Addressbook] Description: Contact entered for "Paul Senior" (Senior is his surname/last-name not his rank/showing-lack-of-naming-imagination). Contacts stuff carefully removes the "Senior" from the file-as part, making the contact almost unusable because it won't search out correctly. Please make US naming prejudices removable (or ideally not there at all). Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Still valid in 1.4.3. Retitling
still valid in 1.5
i don't understand western names well so i can not say whehter senior is a common last name or common suffix. But entering senior explicitly in last name filed in the full name dialog (which comes when you click on Full name button) will work for you.
It might make sense to dumb down the name parser a bit, so it wouldn't parse suffixes like "senior", but require you to use the detailed name editor for that. It would make the common case more predictable, which is what we want, I think.
The best option here is use the Full name dialog, to enter the contacts. If you enter the information in the full name dialog,it will not be parsed and taken as such. Otherwise it is difficult to find out when to parse and when not to. Closing it for now, as the problem is solved by using full name dialog.