I'm sorry to read that you find my posting biased. I'm not the autor of the article in http://fr.wikipedia.org/ This thread is about Noel or Noël Burton. Francois has nothing lost here, that was another thread. Northbloke wrote:

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If the end credits say NOEL, then we have no way of telling if they mean Noel or Noël!

That article in a French Encyclopedia tells me differently.

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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I'm sorry to read that you find my posting biased. I'm not the autor of the article

This article is not biaised, it is your conclusion. When you carefully read the article, it is obvious that NOEL may mean Noël. Of course, NOËL always means  Noël.

I had a classmate back in Pittsburgh, PA, in the 50s who pronounced his name as one syllable rhymed with COAL or COLE.  I don't remember if he spelled it Noel or Noël though.

May I also point out that most of his movie credits are in English and not French.
(French)
Assez rare en français, le tréma se rencontre dans les mots suivants :
boësse, boëte, canoë, foëne, maërl, moëre, Azraël, Gaël, Ismaël, Israël, Joël, Judicaël, Michaël, Nathanaël, Noël, Raphaël, Staël, Laëtitia. Les mots goëland et poëme de graphie archaïque peuvent exister dans le langage poétique ;
(English)
The diaeresis mark has also been occasionally applied to English words of Latin origin (e.g., coöperate, reënact), as well as native English words (e.g., noöne), but this usage had become extremely rare by the 1940s. The New Yorker, The Economist, and MIT's Technology Review can be noted as some of the few publications that still spell coöperate with a diaeresis[citations needed]. Its use in English today, apart from words borrowed from other languages, is mostly limited to certain names, such as the surname Brontë and the given names Chloë and Zoë. It is relatively common in words that do not have an obvious divider at the diaeresis point (the diaeresis cannot be replaced by a preceding hyphen), such as naïve.
Noel
Noël

Quoting xradman:

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I wouldn't mind which way he is credited as long as search function could work with either version.  My problem with using accent characters in names and titles is that it makes searches very difficult.  In a perfect world, search for Noel would return both Noël and Noel.  However in current version of the program, such search will only result in Noel. 

That would be very nice!