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sgchan

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Representing English & Chinese Names
May 26, 2009, 06:10:28 pm
I have a question about capturing names. Assuming a person's name is Peter Tan Wah Chee, where Tan is the Last Name, Peter is the English Given Name and Wah Chee is the Chinese Given Name. What is the best way to capture this and have it displayed as Peter Tan Wah Chee?

In addition, the person would also have a name in Chinese characters.

So what is the best way to capture everything?  ???

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Re: Representing English & Chinese Names
May 26, 2009, 06:23:48 pm

I would store both the chinese english name and chinese name as custom fields that extend individual.

You can then implement a post process hook and copy the english name to the middle name of the individual

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Re: Representing English & Chinese Names
May 26, 2009, 07:02:37 pm
Lobo, thank you for the very prompt reply.

I am a newbie to CiviCRM. I know how to create custom fields for capturing the Chinese names in English character and Chinese character. However I do have the following questions:

1. Why would you want the English name to be copied to Middle name?
2. How do you implement a post process hook?
3. Is it possible to set the display name to <English Given Name> <Last Name> <Chinese Given Name - in English>?
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