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accents and diacritics
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantAlien Redrum
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Jesus Christ. There goes another civil conversation because of one person. 
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And Happy New Year, my friend, surfeur.

BTW don't presume that I was calling you a cretin, that would be an error on your part.

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I tried.

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Please back to issue before Skip hijacks this thread too.

As far as I know with accents you always have to type the accent symbol separately before the letter. For example: á = ´ + a. I know that there are different types of keyboards around the world which makes it even more difficult. Does french keyboard have a separate key for "á" or do you guys "build" it from two different symbols when you type, as I do? I think german layout has a separate key for "ü" but when I type I have to "build" it ¨ + u =ü. etc. etc.

What I'm trying to say is that it might be impossible to do both accents and diacritics, but it might be possible to include accents only, since as far as I know they are always combination of symbol and letter and no keyboard layout have a separate key for them.

Somebody, please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, a very difficult, but interesting issue indeed...
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Does french keyboard have a separate key for "á" or do you guys "build" it from two different symbols when you type, as I do?

French keyboards allow direct é, è, à, ù, and ç. We need two symbols for other combinations, especially ê and â though they are rather common.
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I for one wouldn't mind if I get both Bjork and Björk when I search for either because that's what exists in the database. Sure, they could be different persons, but it sounds more like a theoretical problem than a real one.
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Please back to issue before Skip hijacks this thread too.

As far as I know with accents you always have to type the accent symbol separately before the letter. For example: á = ´ + a. I know that there are different types of keyboards around the world which makes it even more difficult. Does french keyboard have a separate key for "á" or do you guys "build" it from two different symbols when you type, as I do? I think german layout has a separate key for "ü" but when I type I have to "build" it ¨ + u =ü. etc. etc.

What I'm trying to say is that it might be impossible to do both accents and diacritics, but it might be possible to include accents only, since as far as I know they are always combination of symbol and letter and no keyboard layout have a separate key for them.

Somebody, please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, a very difficult, but interesting issue indeed...

Moderation PLEASE. Enough with the persional attacks.
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Does french keyboard have a separate key for "á" or do you guys "build" it from two different symbols when you type, as I do?

French keyboards allow direct é, è, à, ù, and ç. We need two symbols for other combinations, especially ê and â though they are rather common.


OK, that makes it even more difficult. Are accented letters completely different compared the ones without ,or does the accent just change the pronounciation?
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Moderation PLEASE. Enough with the persional attacks.
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Just what I ment. Nothing constructive, just more noice, again.
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Moderation PLEASE. Enough with the persional attacks.
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Just what I ment. Nothing constructive, just more noice, again.

And your garbage isn't noise, excuse me. In the vernacular iof my country, go take a very long walk off a very short pier.

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Check your character map and do a comparison of Hex code for the possible differences that could occur per language a, à, á, â, ã, ä, å and you can see it isn't simple task as converting upper case (A) to lowercase (a).

A look up table appears to be the only answer that links various differences in any particular name.
Then it is up to those concerned with the correction to request an addition to the table with documentation to add to the table.

For any one person to create and determine all the possible entries such a table is ridiculous.
We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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Brorthers I worked with were named Miiler.
You can bet that when their ancestors immigrated to the USA and not being familiar with English some immigration officer took the ü for ii.
And of to get a government official to admit or correct their mistake is as near impossible as anything occurs in this universe.
We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
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Are accented letters completely different compared the ones without ,or does the accent just change the pronounciation?


é and è, for example, are in fact considered just as the same letter with different accentuation. But using one in place of another is considered as a spelling mistake, particularly with c and ç, for which the pronounciation is totally different :

ca and ka are pronounced the same
ça and ssa also 

In France, we have in fact quite never spelling mistake between c and ç , (except for dvdprofiler users  )

But ê and è are pronounced the same, so we have often spelling mistakes about them.
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Brorthers I worked with were named Miiler.
You can bet that when their ancestors immigrated to the USA and not being familiar with English some immigration officer took the ü for ii.
And of to get a government official to admit or correct their mistake is as near impossible as anything occurs in this universe.

Well, I even know a place where when we find spelling mistakes, it is forbidden to correct them... 
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