Shouldn't the data base except the O symbol for the titles Omega Man , and I am Omega both covers use the symbol not the letter O

Ω

Doesn't work


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Also doesn't work

I'm stumped 

Same with this movie (which is out on DVD in the UK):

http://www.impawards.com/2007/posters/waz.jpg

The title is: W [greek Delta] Z - now it's listed as WAZ.

Error...2
(Did not work here either...)
(( with greek keyboard v & V produces omegas, but as others has said already, it is messed with))

Quoting AiAustria:

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Quoting lmoelleb:

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The DVD Profiler program is ANSI (not UTF-8). The web site frontend is UTF-8 as far as I can see, but something in the backend is messing with the data.

I'm trying to edit the profile In the Land of Blood and Honey. In this Profile I find the Characters Ž and Š which I cannot enter with my (German) Keyboard. Since the cast is credited with all their diacritic characters, I'd have to know which character set DVDP uses exactly (ANSI is a group of character sets which members differ in many characters).

Does anybody know that exactly?

TIA

Željko Ivanek look this common name thread: here
  And see: here

Maybe you can Copy and Past it in your contribution.
John

My Problems are other characters like the c or the Ð.

... and the real problem is not the insertion: Windows delivers a little programm called Zeichentabelle in German - I assume something like charactermap in English - which offers all possible characters of all character sets, which Windows can reproduce. But to decide which characters are usable, you must know which character set to use...

Since DVD Profiler is a very old program already (from 2000) it has a rather outdated database system underneath.

My guess is that this database prevents the program from using UTF-8 and is stuck with ANSI.

ANSI supports a few special letters but not that many (basically the ones of the major Western countries in the early nineties).

To support all of the world's variations of the latin alphabet (like the special letters in Czech), the Greek, Russian and other alphabets as well as the symbol languages like Japanese Kanji and Chinese the program would have to switch to Unicode one of its variants being UTF-8.

But that would probably mean ripping out the database from underneath and putting a new one in. And depending on how intertwined the GUI code, the logic code and the database access code arethis could result in a major rewrite of the program.



That being said, I hate it when people try to force every gimmick in DVD title a bored cover designer came up with into the DVDP database.

I already hate "T4Xi", I will not like an "Omega Man" with an actual Omega any better. It defeats the whole purpose of a database.

When you whatch Ghostbusters and the library scene comes up and the ghost opens all the index card drawers and blows away the cards: Do you really think these cards contain cover gimmicks or do you think they were typed down in a way so people could actually FIND the books they were looking for?