iOS TIL - PersonNameComponentsFormatter

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Hi all,

I've been around in these circles for over 10 years, but I'm starting to get back into the online forum circles. Just thought this would be a good share!

// Example 1

let formatter = PersonNameComponentsFormatter()
formatter.style = .long

let components = formatter.personNameComponents(from: "Mac Rumors")
print(components!.givenName!) // Mac
print(components!.familyName!) // Rumors

// Example 2

var formatter = PersonNameComponents()
formatter.familyName = "Rumors"
formatter.givenName = "Mac"
print(formatter) // "firstname: Mac familyname: Rumors"

When you work with any major apps, you often need to deal with customer's names. It's not safe to assume that every user follows the western First/Last conventions. For example, I'm Australian but I live in Japan, and we format names Last/First.

Sometimes attention not being paid to this can lead to problems. I discovered this, and I thought I'd share.

 

[casperes1996]

Welcome to the forums here. Thanks for sharing Lots of things to consider when doing localisation!