All Devices Comma in "From name" causes iOS Mail to consider it Last, First

[scrapisimo]

If I put, for instance, something like this: "Jeffrey Lebowski, PhD" in the "From" field when sending an email, iOS Mail assumes the comma is separating a last name from a first name, and will render the name as "PhD Jefrey Lebowski." This does not occur in, for instance, Mac Mail, Outlook, or Gmail. I'm using Mailchimp to send emails, but I imagine this would be a problem with anything, since it appears to be the iOS Mail app that is causing the issue.

Is there any way around this? Some weird Unicode alternative comma or something?

 

[Puppuccino]

If it’s a bug I doubt there’s a fix aside Apple fixing it themselves.

 

[Timothy Leo Crowley]

Leave out the comma.

 

[scrapisimo]

Unfortunately the comma is not a personal preference but a part of a product’s name (that’s not in English) and it wouldn’t look grammatically correct without it.

 

[chabig]

Can you put it in quotes?

 

[scrapisimo]

Can you put it in quotes?

I tried but it still separates and reverses the name.

 

[Marshall73]

If I put, for instance, something like this: "Jeffrey Lebowski, PhD" in the "From" field when sending an email, iOS Mail assumes the comma is separating a last name from a first name, and will render the name as "PhD Jefrey Lebowski." This does not occur in, for instance, Mac Mail, Outlook, or Gmail. I'm using Mailchimp to send emails, but I imagine this would be a problem with anything, since it appears to be the iOS Mail app that is causing the issue.

Is there any way around this? Some weird Unicode alternative comma or something?

what does it do if you enter it as Jeffrey LeBowski, Ph.D.

 

[scrapisimo]

what does it do if you enter it as Jeffrey LeBowski, Ph.D.

The sender’s name appears as “Ph.D Jeffrey Lebowski”. In this example the change it’s not that dramatic but the name I’m using makes no sense when it’s reversed this way. It’s also a name of a product, so the comma in the name has to be there, it’s not a personal preference.

 

[Marshall73]

The sender’s name appears as “Ph.D Jeffrey Lebowski”. In this example the change it’s not that dramatic but the name I’m using makes no sense when it’s reversed this way. It’s also a name of a product, so the comma in the name has to be there, it’s not a personal preference.

if you go into contacts and edit the contact then add a field, choose suffix and put Ph.D. in there does it work correctly?

 

[scrapisimo]

if you go into contacts and edit the contact then add a field, choose suffix and put Ph.D. in there does it work correctly?

It works fine this way but it affects only the way it is displayed on my iPhone. For everyone else it will still be displayed reversed.

 

[posguy99]

It works fine this way but it affects only the way it is displayed on my iPhone. For everyone else it will still be displayed reversed.

Just out of curiosity, what is actually in the mail headers vs what is the client displaying? Namely, is this an interpretation issue by the receiving client, or is the sending client forming the name other than you would like?

 

[scrapisimo]

Just out of curiosity, what is actually in the mail headers vs what is the client displaying? Namely, is this an interpretation issue by the receiving client, or is the sending client forming the name other than you would like?

It seems to be an issue with the receiving client, namely, iOS Mail client. Any other client - Mac OS Mail, Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo display the name properly.

The name is in Bulgarian - Обичам те, защото. What I see as a sender on any iPhone Mail is защото Обичам те.

 

[posguy99]

It seems to be an issue with the receiving client, namely, iOS Mail client. Any other client - Mac OS Mail, Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo display the name properly.

That's not what I asked. What is in the headers? Is iOS Mail reformatting the name, or is it displaying what's in the headers and the other mail clients are reformatting the name? Obv iOS Mail doesn't give you many controls to configure how something is displayed, but more information is always good.

 

[scrapisimo]

That's not what I asked. What is in the headers? Is iOS Mail reformatting the name, or is it displaying what's in the headers and the other mail clients are reformatting the name? Obv iOS Mail doesn't give you many controls to configure how something is displayed, but more information is always good.

I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly but I think the only way to view the header in iOS Mail is when I attempt to forward the message. So it looks like the screenshot below. The correct way to be displayed is in the header "From: "Обичам те, защото" You can see in the background how the sender's name looks when it's received.