Hey Samsung! "Col" is a name, not a title

[Peter_in_2780]

Since the most recent update (12.1.20.21 if anyone's interested), I've been bemused by the sorting of Samsung's Contacts. I have a fire service colleague by the name of Col B****. His position, (along with several others) got renamed by the service. I keep my contacts sorted by first name, so he used to appear in the C's, as Col B**** oldtitle. I edited the entry to Col B**** newtitle, whereupon he got shuffled into the B's. :mad: :mad: Eventually, by poking into the .vcf file, I figured that Samsung, in their infinite wisdom, has now decided to parse the name as Title: Col, First: B****, Last: newtitle. If I rename him to Colin (a handle nobody uses), sanity is restored. Well, almost. My other contact Col Ch**** is sorted on the Ch****, as though he has a title but no last name. Makes you wonder how they'd handle Major Major Major Major....

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[OriginalGriff]

Not to mention Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS ... :laugh: KCMG - "Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St MichAel and St George" FRGS - "Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society" (He normally truncated the rest to "Etc.")

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[Super Lloyd]

Obviously, doh! :-\

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[den2k88]

LOL well in Italy we havce an elite paratroop force called "9th Regiment Col Moschin". The number of "journalists" referring to the famous Col. Moschin is jarring. "Col Moschin" is the name of a hill, by the way, as "col" is just a regional variation of "colle", literally "hill".

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[musefan]

It used to be that if you had an unusual name you would be bullied in school. Nowadays you can get bullied in the comfort of your own home, by your phone.

[CodeWraith]

Peter_in_2780 wrote:

Makes you wonder how they'd handle Major Major Major Major....

A colonel is a major^4.

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[Forogar]

When I moved to work in Germany I found that they were very keen on titles, etc. When I first got there they called me "Herr ..." but once they found out I had been a professor and had a doctorate they always called me "Herr Doctor Professor ..." which was fun to start with but they persistently called me that and it got really tiresome after a while. Thank goodness they didn't find out I had once been a Colonel or had an inherited knighthood! "Das Ritter Herr Doctor Professor Oberst ..."? :omg:

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[DRHuff]

So give him a title of Mr and this problem goes away.

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