Merge customer name fields

[kassner]

Hi,

Can you guys think about merging all customer's name-related fields (prefix, firstname, middlename, lastname and suffix) into a single name field? I think this makes magento a more international product.

Motivational literature:
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/your-last-name-contains-invalid.html

Thanks!

[ilol]

Great idea, @kassner. I created the feature request with internal tracking number MAGETWO-33841. Please, reference to this id in further conversation.

[vpelipenko]

Also if you want to contribute suggested changes, your pull request is always welcome :-).

[piotrekkaminski]

Thank you for your submission.

We recently made some changes to the way we process GitHub submissions to more quickly identify and respond to core code issues.

Feature Requests and Improvements should now be submitted to the new Magento 2 Feature Requests and Improvements forum (see details here).

We are closing this GitHub ticket and have moved your request to the new forum.