Re: real name handling

On January 10, lanz@xxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> How can I make BBDB recognize "compound" real names like
> 
> Jane von Arx
> Peter de Vries 
> 
> and split them into firstnames "Jane" and "Peter" and lastnames "von
> Arx" and "de Vries"?
> 
> Is there any functionality already implemented in current version of
> BBDB?

What's your current setting for bbdb-extract-address-components-func?
There's some code in BBDB itself to try and parse names, but there's
also the option of using mail-extr via bbdb-rfc922-addresses, and
mail-extr has far better functionality for splitting out unusual
addresses.

Cheers,
Waider.
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