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I'm trying to add a contact. If I click on the plus sign below the "First name", "Last name", and "Company" field, I see a pop-up whose first two entries, "Yomi name" and "Yomi company" don't mean anything to me. Here's a picture:
What the heck does that mean?
Organizing and accessing contact information in Outlook.com
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Hi Brian,
Yomi name and Yomi company name are fields for entering the phonetic equivalent for Japanese names. In Japan, there is commonly a Furigana equivalent for the Kanji name that is used for sorting and searching.
HTH,
Stacey
Hi Everyone,
We appreciate your comments and suggestions about the "Yomi" feature. You can send your feedbacks or feature requests using this feedback form.
We will continue to listen closely to provide you with a great Outlook.com experience.
Thank you.
Johan
Oh for goodness sake! This yomi business is simply nonsense. (Even as I write this text in the reply box the word "yomi" has a red squiggly line under it indicating the Microsoft's own spell check doesn't recognize it!) I too queried the term after bringing up HELP from being in my Contacts, "People " page and it wasn't even recognized. For all of us, Japanese extraction included, who live in the grand U.S. of A. this term is nothing more than distracting and a waste of programming space. It needs to be eliminated from the context for users in the U.S. It's pandering to a teeny weeny minority in the name of foolish diversity.
And changing "Contacts" to "People" is so lacking in descriptive value that it's juvenile.
But, and it is a big but, what about all those who converse regularly with Japanese colleagues? Are we not worth considering too?
So, Noel (iFiredog), you think it's appropriate to bother customers with something not related to them? I do not think so. Microsoft should workout easily (cookies anybody?) which country I am from and what language I prefer and then just to hide the options not related to me. Period.
It shouldn't be a problem. Or are you serious that just because of one particular nation (Japanese in the Yomi case, USA with their State thing, etc.), all customers around the world should try to figure out what those for them not necessary items means?
Not only do I agree with "steverosker" fully but it shows prejudice on Microsoft's part by putting Japaneese preferences in other language based programs. Why not include parts of the other hundreds of languages into Outlook?
I'm not defending the decision to include language-specific options, I was just trying to explain why they could be regarded as necessary. Email knows no national or cultural boundaries, and users in any one country or language zone have contacts in other countries and language zones. Apart from that, you can find statistics like Chinese ... is the third most-spoken language in the United States ... Over 2 million Americans speak some variety of Chinese.
You'll note that the Yomi fields now appear at the bottom of the list of unused Name fields, where you can cheerfully ignore them, just as I ignore Statefor my contacts that don't live in one.
Microsoft should work out easily ... which country I am from and what language I prefer
Both of those bits of information are part of your profile. They still don't say anything about whether people in your contacts list have Yomi names.