Infix Address Book

In the Netherlands (and i suppose in other countries) we use a "tussenvoegsel" which i believe is called a "infix" in english. It's a surname (last name) prefix. I can't find this field in address book and the result is contacts being sorted by the most common infixes "de" and "van". So basically, 90% of my contacts are sorted under one letter.

The simple workarounds are to use the middle name field, put the infix behind the last name or behind the first name, but that's a fast and dirty way of getting it to work.

So, am i overlooking something? Does anybody know if this is possible in address book (and if infix is the correct name for this) ?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Adress Book

Posted on Feb 4, 2011 3:09 AM

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Feb 4, 2011 3:56 AM in response to Thomas de Wit

I don't think you are overlooking anything.
I also looked in the vCard format spec and there doesn't seem to be a place for that. However, I didn't find a definitive source ruling it out.
Apple does add its own extensions to the vCard format, so it is possible they could add that, so I would suggest [sending feedback to Apple|http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html].

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