[mythtv-users] Foreign character sets

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Thu Feb 4 23:33:00 UTC 2010


On Thu, February 4, 2010 10:33 pm, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:26:45PM -0000, Yan Seiner wrote:
>> Well, some of my movies were made in Germany, with American actors, and
>> released in the Czech Republic.  I have the Czech version; but the movie
>> has 3 legitimate titles.  Do I use the US, German, or Czech title?
>
> Surely if you have the Czech version, you should be using the Czech
> title?
>
>> Likewise some of the Japanese movies were re-released in the US with
>> slight changes and english dialogue.  I have the Japanese DVDs but I
>> would
>> assume most tmdb user have the US version.
>
> Likewise here I would want the Japanese title. Especially since the
> American version is different and not just a translation.

My piont was that updating tmdb is not the right solution for this sort of
thing, as it doesn't allow for multi-national titles.

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