writing of japanese names

[Hiroki Sato]

Hi,

Pav Lucistnik <pav at freebsd.org> wrote
  in <1070833597.23744.5.camel at hood.oook.cz>:

pav> I wonder what's the correct way of writing japanese names. I see a lot
pav> of "UMENO Takashi" (CAPITALS Normal), but I see "Umeno Takashi" (Normal
pav> Normal) too.. What's the correct way, and should be unify contributors
pav> article, where both ways are excercised?

 FYI, I described the convention some time ago on -doc:

Hiroki Sato <hrs at eos.ocn.ne.jp> wrote
  in <20030721.021824.108735269.hrs at eos.ocn.ne.jp>:

hrs> Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org> wrote
hrs>   in <20030717073603.GE874 at unixpages.org>:
hrs> 
hrs> chris> I still have a PR assigned to me about this one (PR 45214).  So, these names
hrs> chris> should stay the way they are with last name first?  Or can we just make them
hrs> chris> conform with the other entries?
hrs> chris> I'm not familiar with japanese traditions or habits, hence the question :-)
hrs> 
hrs>  In Japan, people use family-given order, but they usually spell
hrs>  their name in given-family order with alphabets.  However, some prefer
hrs>  to spell their family name with capital letters.  My name, for example,
hrs>  is sometimes written as "Hiroki SATO" or "SATO Hiroki," ("SATO" is
hrs>  my family name).  When the name is written as "Hiroki Sato,"
hrs>  typically it is in given-family order.
hrs> 
hrs>  Anyway, I prefer to keep their names as they wrote.  So the entries
hrs>  in the PR should be re-ordered by their first name which is spelled
hrs>  with small letters except for the initial letter. 

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| Hiroki SATO
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