Ok gang I have three questions and i want some answers please. Surfeur;s wish is the single most destructive issue to come up. And i hav esaid so, it will utterly destroy the Rules and 5 years worth of work. This is not the first time i hav said this and no one has said anything

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1)Do you know this and don't care?
2)Do you not understand how this is true?
3) Or you are just ignoring it?

Please I want to hear some answers

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Just so we are clear, the solution I am thinking of is "François Truffaut [Francois Truffaut]".

Actually in this case it is the solution for a credit 'Francoit Truffaut' because 'François Truffaut' is the common name for this person. But I guess you are correct, he has suggested this even for the case when there is only a single name variant. IMO this could partially work but would be to complicated.

Fine in theory, but would totally screw up the CLT in practice. A program update that gets the system to see e, è, é, ê and ë all as the same letter would I think work much better and wouldn't require a mass change to profiles.

I agree.

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Ok gang I have three questions and i want some answers please. Surfeur;s wish is the single most destructive issue to come up. And i hav esaid so, it will utterly destroy the Rules and 5 years worth of work. This is not the first time i hav said this and no one has said anything

Questions
1)Do you know this and don't care?
2)Do you not understand how this is true?
3) Or you are just ignoring it?

Please I want to hear some answers

You forgot option 4) you don't believe it is the single most destructive issue to come up.  That would be my answer.

4 was not included for a reason. If you want 4 then I can give youi the answer buyt you won't like it, I promise.

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Ok I appreciate your response, martian, this extends far beyond Yves and his ...no I won't say it.

This will also affect Asian names, goodbye Chow yun Fat as Credited, hello Yun Fat chow, now we are no longer dealing with the film credits, the data is now based on I don' know what. And five years worth of work by all of us is down the tubes. We will be fllooded with users trying to get THEIR cultural issue recognized. Even in the states, Martian, is it Bobbi Jo// or Bobbi/ Jo/, depends on where she's from the Deep South probably Bobbi Jo// the Northeast likely Bobbi/Jo/. Say goodbye to profiler and say hello to the new IMDB which is ruled by user preferences and no real data.

I am sorry, but those are completely different issues.

There is no provision, in the rules, for interpreting the order of the data.  If the on screen data is Chow Yun Fat, we have to enter it as Chow Yun Fat.  We can't, no matter how hard anybody tries, misrepresent the data.

There is, however, a provision for converting all uppercase words, into mixed case.  In this case, we have no choice but to misrepresent the data.

Name parsing isn't even covered by the rules so, unfortunately, is a free-for-all.  The only upside is that, no matter how you parse the name, the data is accurately represented...as long as it wasn't in all caps.

NO it is not martian. At the ciore of Yves' argument is "I am French and we do things this way" and We spell things this way, it is a cultural argument, exactly the SAME argument that has raged over Asian names for so many years and why I came up with my solution which allows for the culture without the damage that your change would affect and you would not be able to stop it. Profiler would in very short order become useles, like I said I don't Contribute anymore I don't care. I am fighting to save a program I happen to like a lot, if you have your way, I will sit back and i will watch the carnage and one day I will come back and say Congratulations, I tried to warn you.<shrugs>

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Ok gang I have three questions and i want some answers please. Surfeur;s wish is the single most destructive issue to come up. And i hav esaid so, it will utterly destroy the Rules and 5 years worth of work. This is not the first time i hav said this and no one has said anything

Questions
1)Do you know this and don't care?
2)Do you not understand how this is true?
3) Or you are just ignoring it?

Please I want to hear some answers

I responded to your questions where you asked me them:

http://www.invelos.com/Forums.aspx?task=viewtopic&topicID=469331&PageNum=6&messageID=1324552#M1324552

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Ok gang I have three questions and i want some answers please. Surfeur;s wish is the single most destructive issue to come up. And i hav esaid so, it will utterly destroy the Rules and 5 years worth of work. This is not the first time i hav said this and no one has said anything

Questions
1)Do you know this and don't care?
2)Do you not understand how this is true?
3) Or you are just ignoring it?

Please I want to hear some answers

Personally, I do not subscribe to your "the sky is falling" description of the issue!

I will answer your questions here the same as I did in the other thread:

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None of the above.

I know that and I care.

However, getting the data correct and respecting that others have a real problem with entering incorrectly spelled words in their language is more important than the amount of work required to get it correct.