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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
Perhaps so, by why those fields appear when my configured language is and has always been English? That's the point I'm making.
Come on, Brian. How would you suggest they do it? Dutch people commonly have a given name and a different name they actually use. 90% of Icelanders have no last name and their telephone directory is listed in alphabetical order of first names. My address in England has neither City nor State.
Do you expect the choice of fields to be language-specific, or perhaps locale-specific? What about those who use a language other than the prevailing one in their locale?
Hotmail had to decide on a lowest common denominator of data fields, and for sorting purposes, the yomi is essential for contacts using a CJK language. There are already over 40 data fields (over 80 if you include those not accessible in the UI). Allowing for all possible language/locale variations would probably double or treble those figures.
If you don't need to record the yomi for any of your contacts, feel free to leave the field blank.
Had Stacey Hanson said "We always include that field to accommodate Japanese users," that would have explained it. I'd never heard of the term before and I guess that I did expect fields to be language-specific. Other menus seem to be. I've never been familiar enough with a person from the Netherlands or Iceland to know the facts you know. I've never seen a British phone book, so how am I to know that's in them? When I used Hotmail, I never saw that term, so you shouldn't be so incredulous that I might be surprised by its appearance.
Sorry, it was late when I wrote that, so I was perhaps less tolerant than I normally try to be.
Yomi was as I recall always there in Hotmail, too, but probably buried even deeper than it is now. It has always been included - along with all sorts of other fields - in CSV export from Windows Live Contacts (https://contacts.live.com).