Facebook sync mixes up family and given names

Hi
I know this is a problem only for a few users but still is a problem. When syncing iOS 6 with FB it puts the contacts into the address book by the names. And obviously, being a us product, it takes granted the first name displayed is the given name, and the last is the Family name.
However this is not always the case. Facebook, as apple, is multicultural, and there are languages where they put the family name first and the given name second. This obviously screws up syncing as instead of having Doe, John sync up with John Doe, it will be added as a new contact.
Facebook, however, recognized this. When I joined up FB a long time ago it was English only, and it asked my name as Given, Family. So I gave it in like this and never changed it, so it now shows up as Given Family (sorry but you get it, do you), instead if the Hungarian way of Family Given. iOS will recognize it okay and it will be synced.
I was quite fed up with people mixing this up on FB once upon a time, who wouldn't read the register page and enter their name in the wrong order. But guess what. FB has added Hungarian support, and it now adds a way to show your name in either way.
Let me repeat this. If someone enters his family and given names in the correct way, you can still select in FB what order to show it. You can be Given Family or Family Given. The labels will be correct, though, so FB will know which is your family name.
But iOS does not.
iOS assumes the first name is the given name, whatever you do. This means its an error in the query, as it does not ask for the family name and given name separately to fill the correct fields. It just asks for a name. And if the user has selected the 'reverse' order, Family Given, it will be filed wrong in iOS. Even though the user have added his or her data correctly.
This makes FB sync completely useless as it just adds everybody in my address book again, save for a few people who are insisting to use the English form for usually business reasons.
Thank you
Balazs

Bookworm90210 wrote:
It didn't work.
Signing out & in again, or rolling back the library?
I tried resyncing my phone, too
Unwise at this point, might have been a potential source of data to recover.
but it didn't help and just passed on the funky organization to my phone. At least the songs are actually named right.
That is at least something.
Would uninstalling an then reinstalling iTtunes help?
No, not at all. Uninstalling & reinstalling ITunes won't repair any damage to the .itl file, or the media files themselves.
See this thread: Is there any way to edit an itunes library.itl file?
tt2

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