Re: [PATCH] Match last names with an "O'" prefix (like "Foo O'Bar").

On Tue, Mar 04 2025, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
>> Or an Irish edition of BBDB?  (Someone else needs to step in for that.)
>
> This should be set based on the locale.
>
> $ printenv LANG
> LANG=en_IE.utf8
>
> Seriously: that's what it's for. If you want to get super fancy, you
> could parse based on the default locale for the address of the current
> BBDB entry. :)

The problem with BBDB is that it may cover the world.  You could define
a locale per record or even per field of a record.  BBDB already does
this (effectively) for mail addresses that are formatted according to
country.