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Not for nothing, but how is a user for whom english isn't their first language, supposed to know that Standard Capitalization of FRANCOIS BERLEAND is Francois Berleand instead of the version with the accents?  I'm just saying, if my name had accents in it and somebody told me to write it in standard capitalized form, it would have accents.  And if you told me I was wrong, I'd might mention that you were an idiot and that I should know how to write my own name.

What the rule should say is write like we do in America, where accents don't count.

By definition, standard capitalization has absolutely no bearing on lower-case accented letters, unless of course they are the intial letter in the word.  Of course one doesn't have to believe me, they are free to consult the wiki page on capitalization or any other readily available online resource.

Personally, I could care less how this goes down.  I modify all my profiles locally to suit my tastes.  I just always find it amusing when someone's little narrow experience is supposed to inform the rest of the world on the only right way to do things.

Ok...So, from your point of view, anyone that doesn't know that FRANCOIS BERLEAND = François Berléand and enters Francois Berleand when contributing a Region 1 profile is a narrow-minded idiot? Is this right?

No...if you don't know better then you can't be at fault.  Of course, once somebody corrects you and you persist in doing it wrong, well....call that whatever you want.

The greater point I was trying to make was the violent reaction when someone NOT from region 1 sees it differently and is treated like an idiot.

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I guess because they know that c is not the same character as ç, and e is a different character than é.

And C is not the same character as c.

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And C is not the same character as c.

I guess a capital C as fifth letter in a word is not standard in any language.

You haven't really read Shakespeare until you've read it in the Klingon original!

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PS. The horse is not dead.

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... but is it really necessary to hijack every topic?

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Just what you could also have written:
And we will remain at accented names until one of two things happens...surfeur51 decides that it is a dead horse, or Ken decides to change his mind.  Unfortunately, I don't see either of those things happening any time soon.  Don't get me wrong here, I am not saying Ken should correct rules that make problems.  He is free to manage his database as he wants.  I just don't think it will do any good. 

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PS. The horse is not dead. It is alive each time a user pretends that the online database reflects exactly what is in credits : that is wrong in 99% of cases (= each time capitalization is changed).

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In addition, because english films are, more and more, using accented capital letters in the credits, that statement isn't even true for accented names.