Locale-aware CJK name formatting (surname first)

[pescepalla]

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Affected app version

1.0.1

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 13 Fairphone OS

Affected device model

Fairphone 4

How did you install the app?

F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid

Steps to reproduce the bug

Insert any Chinese name, for example:

Surname: 李
First name: 小龍
Nickname: Bruce

Expected behavior

The name should always be shown as 李小龍 (i.e. surname first, first name second). There should be no spaces or commas between the characters.

Actual behavior

Contacts app does not recognize Chinese names and displays them as Western names like:

小龍 李 (name first, incorrect)
or
李, 小龍 (surname first, but there's comma and space between surname and first name)

Screenshots/Screen recordings

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Additional information

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[pescepalla]

As a workaround it is possible to just insert the whole name as first name or surname.

[jonasstein]

Looks to me that this is not a bug, but a feature request to print the names in a different order depending on a new flag in the entry.
[x] print surname before first name
This is not a technical bug, but a cultural thing here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_name#Word_order similar rules apply for names in Japanese and likely other languages/cultures.
The setting should depend on the user preference, but not on the characters used. Because the Japanese user could prefer the display of "Einstein Albert"

[cdytoby]

As a user who has mixed contacts in the list, Chinese, English, German, etc, I need mixed way of displaying these. The official google app did the right thing, and I don't need to change preferences. (Not sure about Japanese though, it has overlapping UTF-8 char between these 2)

And it's indeed a feature request.

[cdytoby]

One commenet regarding this:

In Nextcloud, there is a field called something like "display name", even though first name and last name are present, the "display name" is displayed on the list of contacts. Is it something specified in the standard? I'm not sure if this field is present in google contacts or other services.