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Help Wanted! foreign characters with examples
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributoryeshee
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I am confronted with mainly (not exclusively) czech characters in a profile I am working on.
I've already read this post but I'm still not sure wether I understand it correctly.

Here is how I understood it so far and how it would affect my current need:

á, é, í, ó, ú, ý → á, é, í, ó, ú, ý
SÁRA ARNSTEINOVÁ → Sára Arnsteinová
PETR HEDVÁBNÝ → Petr Hedvábný
IGOR POKORNÝ → Igor Pokorný

š, ž → š, ž
IVAN MAREŠ → Ivan Mareš
TEREZA HUŠKOVÁ → Tereza Hušková

ć → c
č → c
ě → e
ř → r
MARTIN VAČKÁŘ → Martin Vackár
JIŘÍ ŠIMEK → Jirí Šimek
VÁCLAV VANĚČEK → Václav Vanecek
Lidija Škorućak → Lidija Škorucak    (hypothetical at this point, but might turn up)

Ď, ď → D, d
PAVLÍNA ŽĎÁNSKÁ → Pavlína Ždánská

Existing database entries for some names have replaced š, ž with s, z as well, I guess because it is not displayed correctly in all Profiler windows.
Which is to prefer?

So, am I close?
Where am I wrong?
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Character encoding is based on something called code-tables which evolved over time when more and more languages needed to be supported.

Unfortunately, DVD Profiler is stuck in a time where it only supports what is called Windows-1252.

This is the basic Latin (i.e. English) alphabet and the Western European (i.e. German, French, Spanish, ...) languages and their special characters such as ä or é.

Eastern European languages are not contained in Windows-1252 which is why characters that only exist in Czech (or others) don't work with DVD Profiler.

You can find all the characters that do work, on this Wikipedia page.

How to transcribe characters that do not work into Windows-1252 I do not know.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorAiAustria
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Microsoft Windows offers a small tool "Character Map" which displays all available characters of a map:


Windows Western corresponds to code set 1252, which is supported by DVDProfiler.

... further more you can select a character and copy it into the clipboard.
Complete list of Common Names  •  A good point for starting with Headshots (and v11.1)
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Thanks both of you, but what you both posted was exactly the way I made the 'translations' I listed above.

I just did not know for sure if they are correct, incorrect or one of many possibilities.

Most of those listed above already are in the database with different versions.
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorDanae Cassandra
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In general, I think if the diacritic mark for the character is not supported, simply go with the character without its diacritic.  It's incorrect, but it's the least incorrect possible.
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