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Translated movie title with accentuated letters
posted by OustonSTAFFMOD on April 23, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Hello people of TheMovieDB ! I have a problem with the scraper in XBMC, and I think this is a general issue for all the users which use languages with accentuated letters (a lot of people!). Indeed, I'm french and a lot of translated titles have letters like "é-è-ë-ç-à-ê-ô-î-ï-ù..." and I have noticed that all these movies are not recognized by themoviedb scraper. Moreover, if I change these accentuated letters, in the title, by the non-accentuated, all these movies are suddenly recognized ! Oh Miracle ! So I assume this is the problem, the accentuated letters which are not accepted by the database/scraper/something... :( Thanks to all the people of themoviedb.org for doing this site and database so awesome ;) Peace
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 23, 2013 at 11:55 AM
This is a known issue and search is currently being re-written. When it is done and goes live, this issue will go away.
Reply by Ouston
on April 24, 2013 at 9:26 AM
Thank you for responding so quickly :) This is the second time I post a message and the second time the respond is quick and clear !