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204270.1
Date: 12/9/2011 4:24:16 PM
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Hopefully this is easy to fix, because it's pretty annoying.

In the game viewer, the player's first name is always consisting of the first word in the player's name, and the rest is considered the surname. However it's wrong more often than right.

An example would be Jose Manuel Calderon, where "Jose Manuel" is the first name, and "Calderon" is the surname. In the game viewer, it would appear as "J. Manuel Calderon" (or even "J. Manuel Cal..." where there isn't enough space)

It should obviously be "J. M. Calderon" (or "J. M. Calde...")

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204270.2 in reply to 204270.1
Date: 12/12/2011 7:10:33 AM
TrenseRI
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That's an issue with the names database (from which new player names are created). We store player names as in two fields, name and surname, and we show only the first letter of the name and the whole surname. Nothing we can do short of checking every name in the database.

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204270.3 in reply to 204270.2
Date: 12/12/2011 7:52:12 AM
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No, it is actually only the first part of the given name that is truncated as far as I can see.

The current implementation gives: J. Manuel Calderon. The more logical truncations (at least in this part of the world) would be: J. Calderon or J. M. Calderon

If the match viewer receives both fields (name, surname), it should be at least as easy to get "J. Calderon" as "J. Manuel Calderon". The way it is shown now rather suggests the match viewer receives a single name field and therefore treats everything after the first word of the name as surname. If that is the case, then it is not an easy fix.

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204270.4 in reply to 204270.3
Date: 12/13/2011 6:26:16 AM
TrenseRI
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The problem is that the name was stored incorrectly. For example, the name part was stored as "Jose" and the surname as "Manuel Calderon". That's why only one word was abbreviated. It's something we can't detect via code, it should have been corrected manually in the database.

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204270.5 in reply to 204270.4
Date: 12/13/2011 7:51:27 AM
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Ok, but I think the issue is real. I used to have a player called Luiz Humberto Veiga Neves (7535808). Based on the first name and last name sorting on the roster page, his name field must be Luiz Humberto and last name field Veiga Neves. Yet, his name shows as "L. Humberto..." in the match viewer. Here's his latest game (39839258) where you can check it out.

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204270.7 in reply to 204270.6
Date: 12/13/2011 3:59:09 PM
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Yeah, had also checked by sorting by first/last name on my roster page before creating that thread. I knew it was only a gameviewer problem, that's why I said it was probably easy to fix.

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204270.8 in reply to 204270.5
Date: 12/14/2011 6:19:56 AM
TrenseRI
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OK, I admit, it looks like you're right. It's not a top priority issue but will be sorted eventually.

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204270.9 in reply to 204270.8
Date: 12/15/2011 12:53:17 PM
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I appreciate it. You guys do a great work behind the scenes.

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204270.10 in reply to 204270.9
Date: 1/5/2012 8:02:55 AM
TrenseRI
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Unfortunately, due to the way data is read in the MatchViewer, we cannot determine which part of the name is the surname. But, the good news is that we can abbreviate all parts (words) of the name but the last (which I did). The MatchViewer has been updated to that new code so you can see for yourself. Hope this makes it better.

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204270.11 in reply to 204270.10
Date: 1/5/2012 1:07:16 PM
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Not perfect, but unquestionably a lot better.
Cheers!!

"Air is beautiful, yet you cannot see it. It's soft, yet you cannot touch it. Air is a little like my brain." - Jean-Claude Van Damme