Forwarding from a Fedora bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548521


When displaying contacts from an LDAP addressbook, the order in which an
entry's attributes are returned affects the way the contact is displayed.

If the LDAP server returns the following entry:

     dn: cn=Joe Bloggs,dc=example,dc=com
     objectClass: person
     objectClass: inetOrgPerson
     givenName: Joe
     sn: Bloggs
     cn: Joe Bloggs
     mail: joe.bloggs@example.com

then the default contact display is headed just "Bloggs" at the top of both the
address card pane and the preview pane, and the person's given name is not
displayed anywhere in the preview pane.

If the LDAP server returns the entry with the attributes in a slightly
different order, however ('cn' before 'sn'):

     dn: cn=Joe Bloggs,dc=example,dc=com
     objectClass: person
     objectClass: inetOrgPerson
     cn: Joe Bloggs
     givenName: Joe
     sn: Bloggs
     mail: joe.bloggs@example.com

then the contact is correctly headed "Bloggs, Joe" in both the address card
pane and the preview pane.

This shouldn't be the case - the LDAP specification stipulates that the server
may return an entry's attributes in any order.  Evolution should be using the
value of 'cn' if available, whether or not it precedes 'sn' in the returned
entry.

This is with evolution-2.28.0-2.fc12.i686 and
evolution-data-server-2.28.0-1.fc12.i686