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You have totally missed the point, schizzo. I am saying do it the credits way, not ANY cultural way, THE CREDITS. Don't add data you don't see On Screen PERIOD. You are making it way too hard to try to defend your cultural preference. Like i said, i don't whine when I see a bunch of German characters in a film credit, I list it as I see it, It is VERY EASY when you aren't slavish to your nationalistic tendencies, there is nothing to argue about. I see BJORN I type Bjorn, I see FRANÇOIS I type François. The ONLY problem comes when as you noted we run into character sets that the program cannot deal with, and that I can't do anything about, I wish I could but eeeees not my yob, man.  Hopefully Ken will one day give the program the ability to deal with more character sets.

And the reason you get the IMDb is because of people that just have to respond to their culture or are out and out violating the Rules. As I said, what you do affects EVERYONE .

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You still don't get it, schizzzo.

Your choice IS based on cultural preference. my choice is based ONLY on what appears ON SCREEN. I don't care where it comes from. You are applying cultural Rules toi Francois, I am only applying credit data with no regard to ANY culture.

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Since i laid this out I think I have a far clearer vision of what the intent was than ANYONE else.

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We have ONE page, the Credits. We don't have a French page, a German page an Asian page and so forth.

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Soemone who is not familiar with French naming Rules is supposed to enter the data...how.

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Or are they to wait for the supposed experts to step up.

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Since i laid this out I think I have a far clearer vision of what the intent was than ANYONE else.

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Sorry, Skip, but you are doing exactly what you accuse others of doing:  entering data that IS NOT THERE.

It is exactly the same thing when you see FRANCOIS and type Francois as when a French user sees FRANCOIS ant types François.  The only data that is there to be seen is FRANCOIS in caps.  Your typing it in lower case Francois is no more correct than if I type it in lower case as François.  We are BOTH adding data that is not there -- namely the lower case letters.  Just because you choose lower case letters that are identical English representations of the upper case doesn't make it correct.  You are the one who is missing the point, not schizzzo.  You clearly don't understand this issue and are trying to throw "nationalism" labels and IMDb around to support your PERSONAL interpretation.  Sorry, but that dog don't hunt.

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You are definig wrong based on some nationalistic cultural rules. I am defining it simpler than that, WHAT is ON SCREEN? That was the intent and remains so, there is now a system with which to deal with the cultural part. The screen dictates what to do, do not add data that does not appear, do not make any culutural assumptions. If I were advocating making the assumption that Enry suggested that FANCOIS=Frank, then you cvould rightly accuse m,e of making a cultural jusdgement, but i am not, I am simply satting enter it exactly as you see it ON SCREEN. You are advocating a cultural position which differs from the rules.

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