Posted by Jason Wong on 11/09/38 11:22

On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:50, André Medeiros wrote:

> You can have four words to describe a first and last name... you can
> have other alphabets, like arabian, chinese, etc... inserting accented
> characters alone would make that a big, nasty regex, let alone
> predicting ways you can describe first/last names.
>
> I'm not saying that I have the _BEST_ sollution. All I'm saying is that
> there are sittuations that are out of your control, and it seems to me
> this might be the easiest way out, guaranteeing that there are at least
> two words.

Most Chinese would enter their name (usually 3 words, sometimes 2. rarely
4) WITHOUT any spaces.

Not sure what the OP was trying to do, but the best way to handle it
(IMHO) is to give the user 2 input boxes, one for family name, the other
for the rest of their name.

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