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Address Book Alphabetizes Names by Phonetic Spelling

When entering a phonetic spelling in Address Book for a Contact's name that is hard to pronounce, Address Book files that Contact by the phonetic spelling instead of their real name. It is very odd to file Contacts this way; most people look up someone's name by the way it is spelled. It is too difficult to remember letters used to aid pronunciation when looking it up. For example, a common Vietnamese name 'Nguyen' is actually pronounced 'wen'. If I enter 'wen' in the phonetic spelling field, I will have to remember to look up Mr. Nguyen under 'W'.

Filing under the contact's real name would be best, but an option could be at least allowing a choice between the real and phonetic name; just like the choice of filing by 'Company' or 'Contact' that Address Book currently has.

Anyone figured a work around for this? I sent Apple feedback on the problem, but it hasn't changed in 3 years.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 1, 2009 2:04 PM

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Address Book Alphabetizes Names by Phonetic Spelling

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