[gutvol-d] Re: Name lists and Big-endianism

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:13 PM, James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:

Why does this matter?  Consider the famous author name Sun Tzu

Let's consider it; why do you think the general audience will search for Sun Tzu and not Tzu, Sun? A system that just gives an unsearchable list of names and doesn't have Tzu, Sun, even if only as an alias, is unusable, correct or not. Not to mention that his name is Sūn Zǐ, or 孫子, or 孙子 or Sunzi, and that doesn't even start to approach the problem of spelling questions. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.