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Foreign letters - List?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorMagmadrag
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Registered: May 25, 2007
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Actually it is a little bit confusing: I am typing cast & crew of a czechoslowakian tv series. And this language has special letters.
But if I add the data exactly es credited, some letters remain, some are changed to their "non-czech" version.

Example:
Ž remains Ž
ř is modified to r

Is there any list available, which letters can be used and which not? As it is work to copy those special letters out of Wikipedia (as I don't have them on my keyboard), I would avoid the ones not available for profiler and save up time.

I just recognized an additional problem which makes work horribly difficult:
The first two episodes have exactly the same cast. So why not "copy all cast" and then "paste & apend"? Well, it doesn't work: Altough in the first episode the actors exist with those special letters, their copy looks different, new actors are created with a different spelling!

Copying from Ep 1: Veronika Žilková
Getting for Ep 2: Veronika _ilková
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I have a Character Map tool on my desktop computer. It has every special letter combo. However, some of these will default to the "non-Czech" version, like your ř example will default to r in Profiler. You don't have to worry about your additional problem. When you're editing a profile, the work will show as Veronika _ilková, but when you're viewing it in the main Profiler screen and in contributions, it will show as Veronika Žilková. My most common example is Željko Ivanek. When I'm editing a profile, his name shows as |eljko Ivanek. But when I'm viewing the main profile or in my contribution screen (not editing it or anything), it shows as Željko Ivanek. Hope this helps.
My one wish for the DVD Profiler online database: Ban or remove the disc-level profiles of TV season sets. It completely screws up/inflates the CLT.
FACT: Imdb is WRONG 70% of the time! Misspelled cast, incomplete cast, wrong cast/crew roles. So for those who want DVD Profiler to be "as perfect as Imdb", good luck with that.
Stop adding UNIT crew! They're invalid credits. Stop it!
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DVD Profiler uses code page Windows-1252 for its XML export and I believe for its internal database. If you use a method that does not support that code page, characters can get transformed.

UTF-8 has evolved to become the modern global standard, but as we know DVD Profiler is unlikely to be upgraded to match.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorMagmadrag
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Well, like mentioned in the initial post: I only used profiler.
After entering all the data for Episode 1, I recognized that it is absolutely the same for all others. So usually I don't need to type the same data several times. Ep. 1 is typed, so I use right click "copy all cast" and then "paste and apend cast".
So in all my logical understanding it is simply impossible that profiler copies an A and makes it a B. But it replaces letters, available in Episode 1 with an _ for all further episodes, and this I can't get out. Obviously this is a bug not recognized before by anybody
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
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Quoting Magmadrag:
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But it replaces letters, available in Episode 1 with an _ for all further episodes, and this I can't get out.


Text encoding is like this:

Quote:
Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile of the newborn worms of Arrakis?

Paul Atreides: I have heard of it.

Reverend Mother:It is very dangerous and deadly. The Bene Gesserit women who drink it use it to see from within. There is a place...terrifying to us...to women. It is said...a man will come...the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we cannot. Many men have tried.

Paul: They tried and failed?

Reverend Mother:They tried and died.


Others fail just as badly:



ã is actually ã
¼ is ¼

The latter one obviously has no place in a street name.

The original address was "Schlüterstrasse" but ü encoded in HTML would be ü so more seems to have gone wrong

Original source: German IT blogger Fefe
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