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W3C Internationalization Best Practices for personal names

Documents requirements to avoid assuming given-name and family-name order, avoid automatic part extraction, allow single-letter and single-part names, allow punctuation and spaces, preserve casing, avoid family-name requirements, and provide transcription fields when needed.

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Name entry Choose name entry when the product must capture a person's name for identification, correspondence, display, official records, booking, payment, verification, support, or relationship handling. Users can type, paste, autofill, edit, select, undo, and correct names through native text behavior. W3C best practices support preserving casing, allowing punctuation and spaces, accepting single-letter and single-part names, avoiding family-name requirements, and adding transcription fields when needed.

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