Re: a new script category: Scientific

> >Errr, no, why would it be in the wrong top category?  Though you might
> >want to migrate it to Lingua::EN:: since it's rather English specific.
> 
> Well, I tried not to make it English specific. It doesn't really care 
> what language is used, or what order the names are displayed in. And if 
> there are more parts than the default (first, middle, last, prefix, 
> suffix), they can be passed in as extra arguments -- up to 5 of them, 
> IIRC.
> 
> If it's perceived as English specific in some way, I'd rather try to 
> eliminate the things that make it so, or eliminate the perception, 
> rather than move it.

I now took a closer look and I must apologize, your module is not that
English-specific.

But the 'first, middle, last, extras' is a bit difficult.
That is somehow...  errr, "culturally Western European", probably.
The good/bad news is that I haven't ever seen a comprehensive solution
or terminology that would solve this.  Some examples that come to mind:

	family_name given_name [Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian]

	given_name patronymic (male) [Icelandic, some Indic] [2]
	given_name matronymic (female)

	several levels of patronymics [Arabic]

	given_name (Tamil)

[1] At least you didn't go by "ChristianName Surname".
[2] 'Gurusamy Sarathy' being one example.

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