This has nothing to do with Japanese characters. It has to do with the words.

To take another example then, to get everything clear and to not have the character set distract you.

What good will it do to enter the Dutch credits from a Dutch movie released in Norway, when nobody who will ever own that release knows what the credits mean?

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What good will it do to enter the Dutch credits from a Dutch movie released in Norway, when nobody who will ever own that release knows what the credits mean?

We already do that for Cast with role names. If those are only in one language, we don't translate them. I personally don't see Crew as being any different in that regard.

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What good will it do to enter the Dutch credits from a Dutch movie released in Norway, when nobody who will ever own that release knows what the credits mean?

We already do that for Cast with role names. If those are only in one language, we don't translate them. I personally don't see Crew as being any different in that regard.

That's a red herring. Most role names contain NAMES, which cannot be translated anyway. In Cast, this only becomes a problem for role names (usually for minor cast members) such as "barkeeper" and their non-English equivalents.
In Crew, however, it makes the entire Crew section USELESS.

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This has nothing to do with Japanese characters. It has to do with the words.

To take another example then, to get everything clear and to not have the character set distract you.

What good will it do to enter the Dutch credits from a Dutch movie released in Norway, when nobody who will ever own that release knows what the credits mean?

I understand what you are saying.  If I see a credit of 'John Smith  Lyd Blandebatteri', if I don't speak that language, how do I know what that means?

Well,

Skip I am sorry, a handful of users opposed to a vast majority really is VERY unimportant.
A successful program has to go with the majority of its users and not with a few people that DO NOT EVEN CONTRIBUTE.

You can be fully cetain that all those 1000nds of users that never visit those forums here, give a rats behind about assistants to secondary unit directors.
Maybe you will find 40 people of thousands and thousands that would care about this. And right now as it seems most of those 40 people do not even contribute to the online database!

The only one that has a say about this is KEN anyways and I would bet alot of my cash that fully open credits will never happen.
The reasons were perfectly explained by some users here, why it would be a übermess to deal with fully open credits.

And if there is a crowd that also has a saying than it is definitely the crowd that is contributing hundreds and hundreds of profiles to improve the database and not the ones that keep all their updates locally.
Those people should not even allowed to have a saying on this matter.
Reminds me of those people who complain about an elected president tho they did not even bother to vote.

Those few that support open credits, read the posts of reybr, dee1959jay, scotthm, hal9g, and the others AGAIN that have perfectly explained why this is just plain wrong!

Language barriers, way too much work, destruction of the credited as system and so much more.

cheers
Donnie

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What good will it do to enter the Dutch credits from a Dutch movie released in Norway, when nobody who will ever own that release knows what the credits mean?

We already do that for Cast with role names. If those are only in one language, we don't translate them. I personally don't see Crew as being any different in that regard.

That's a red herring. Most role names contain NAMES, which cannot be translated anyway. In Cast, this only becomes a problem for role names (usually for minor cast members) such as "barkeeper" and their non-English equivalents.
In Crew, however, it makes the entire Crew section USELESS.

I don't think it's a red herring. By wanting to translate one section but not another you're introducing inconsistency. I agree that names shouldn't be translated but if you look at 5035673010013 (UK Salò) all the cast is in Italian - Just an example, I know plenty do list mainly names.

Besides, the point of people not understanding a language seems slightly moot when they'd have to know it in the first place to understand what to translate it into.

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If I see a credit of 'John Smith  Lyd Blandebatteri', if I don't speak that language, how do I know what that means?

To be honest, if I saw 'Lyd Blandebatteri' in the credits, I would wonder what the guy that wrote the credits had been smoking that day 

This is an example of a 'Blandebatteri'

Basically, something that mix hot and cold water (Maybe we should add Google translate to the list of unreliable sites together with IMDB and Wiki)

Good to see that you understand my point though 

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Besides, the point of people not understanding a language seems slightly moot when they'd have to know it in the first place to understand what to translate it into.

Not as long as we can use subtitles.