Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 5,459 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote: Hollywood not using diacriticals because of caps is patently untrue That's quite possibly true. More likely they think because their lanuage doesn't have any accents then the rest of the world are wrong in using them! |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | Not really, North. All actors and crew have as part of the contract how they are to be billed on a given film. So if Jose wants to be billed as José, it is a simple matter.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 906 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting hal9g: Quote: Usability issues can be addressed by the programmer. Search functions can be modified to accommodate for diacritics. Of course, but we have to work with what is here now, not what might come in the future | | | The colour of her eyes, were the colour of insanity |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 422 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting m.cellophane: Quote: Question: Should we include diacritical marks (accents, cedillas, tildes, circumflex, etc) to common names and if so, under what circumstances? Well, yes, as for instance ol' Jürgen Prochnow and Tchéky Karyo are both mainly credited (correctly) as such in both their 'foreign' films and US ones... | | | Erik
"Has it ever occurred to you, man, that given the nature of all this new stuff, that, uh, instead of running around blaming me, that this whole thing might just be, not, you know, not just such a simple, but uh - you know?" -- The Dude, The Big Lebowski
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