fire-eggs / YAGP

"Yet Another GEDCOM Parser" - newer/faster/complete GEDCOM parser in C#
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Name sort order / surname prefix #34

Open fire-eggs opened 7 years ago

fire-eggs commented 7 years ago

As fallout from Issue #22 and Issue #33 we need to deal with name sort order correctly.

As mentioned by Tamura Jones we really need a "surname prefix" field to deal with surnames such as "van der Merwe". The surname prefix in this case is "van der". The prefix is necessary to get the sort order correct, which is that "van der Merwe" sorts like "Merwe", not "van der Merwe".