RE: Name relationships in vCard 3.0

[Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As far as I know, N & FN should mean the same thing. 

Indeed.  Now all we have to decide is what we mean by "mean".

Misha


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Subject: RE: Name relationships in vCard 3.0



Yes I guess you can. But you never know how the parser or receiving appl.
will interpret them. Though syntactically it will not cause any problem.
Just like you can enter anything say Jane in the field for first name,Tan
for family name for a form in the ab application. And then a completely
different thing say Peter Brown for full name field. 

As far as I know, N & FN should mean the same thing. 

As specified in RF2426:
N type requires the text to be in the  format following the semantics of
X.520 Common Name attribute.
While FN type need to be a structured text value. Each component can have
multiple values. The components in the structure has to be of the following
sequence : Family Name, Given Name, Additional Names, Honorific Prefix, and
Honorific suffixes. These components are separated by semi-colon. Individual
text can also includes multiple text separated by commas. This type is based
on the semantics of X.520 individual name attributes.

The example given in the RFC was 
FN:Mr. John Q. Public\, Esq.
N:Public;John;Qinlan;Mr.;Esq




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