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*This page is a part of series in [[Classifying Names by Culture]]
==Encodings==
Surnames can be represented in many different encodings. For comparison purposes, it is convenient to have surnames encoded in single standard encoding, such as the Latin alphabet.
|Phone Book (Hardcopy) || Last Name || First Name || Middle Initial || ||
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Note: The US census Address Data Content Standard was managed by the [http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/addressstandard/ Federal Geographic Data Committee] but is now discontinued.
The phone book format is most commonly encountered as: Surname, Firstname I. In this instance we refer to it as a comma format name.
