Re: I don't like what they call "Last name"

Ben Finney wrote:
The CIA, I believe, deals with this cultural bias by recording a
person's name with family name in UPPERCASE. Of course, that's only
useful in writing systems that have such a thing.

That convention is followed in several places. It's very common
in France, for example.

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Clayton School of Information Technology,
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