Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet:

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I did some research on capitalized Spanish names and I found them with accents and without them.

These letters are:

A = a, á
E = e, é
I = i, í
N = n, ñ
O = o, ó
U = u, ú, ü

the vowels are those not from the Catalan?

Quoting hal9g:

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Let's see.

What do the actual Rules tell us about using the "Credited As" field:

Quoting the Rules:

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Use the "Credited As" field where the person's name differs from the credited name.

To determine whether to enter the name directly as credited, or to use the "Credited As" field, use the Credit Lookup tool.

I don't see anything there about using it for accents/diacriticals. 

If "Credited As" is to be used in a profile, the "Name" field is determined by the CLT (the most commonly occurring version of the person's name), so that is determined by what exists in the main database.

The "Credited As" field is determined by the actual credits in the film (after applying the capitalization rules of the country of origin of the actor/actress according to Gerri's latest clarification).

I really don't see how CA can be manipulated to solve this issue, which doesn't need solving now that Gerri has clarified the Rules.

And last I checked, Gerri and/or Ken's clarifications and/or changes to the Rules trump any "intent", real or perceived, that might have existed in the mind of any individual user involved in the writing of these Rules over three years ago.

This program is evolving, as are the Rules that govern it.  3-year-old "intent" is meaningless when we have current clarification from the folks that actually own the application.

Just to 'balance the scales' a bit, I agree with everything Hal said here. 

Rh:

I don't care, I have never seen it On Screen so it's not relevant until i do. Just a guess at the moment it is probablya charcater that Profiler can't handle at the moment either, so...

Unlike you and others, rho I don'r agonize over such things, I dea wilth what I see ON Screen, nothing else, absolutely NOTHING else. Let's take for example Æon Flux, the cover presents the data, the program CAN handle Æ, therefore that is what I enter, I remeber the discussion that was had on this title, which was way too bizarre. Had the porogram NOT supported Æ, the I suppose we would have been forced to drop back five yards and punt, using AE. But the data was clear and so was the rule, as i have said many times this is no harder than one wishes to make it. It appears that some users wish to make it not only difficult, but near impossible.

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Quoting RHo:

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Profiler can perfectly handle ß. It is a widespread ligature character in the German language that officially has no upper case counterpart.

According to your link the ß is replaced by SS in capitalized spelling.

As I said until I see it On Screen for a film it's not relevant. This is simply gamesmanship.

If the program can handle it and it ß appears On SAcreen, guess what I enter...uhhh boy that's hard.

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