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I understand that a large portion of the userbase is not American, but they purchased an American porgram.  As such, they should adapt to the programs format.

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Many people's names include one or more middle names, placed between the first given name and the surname. In the West, a middle name is effectively a second given name. ...

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Again, this can be solved by a simple change to the rules indicating what each field means.

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Because according to these people despite this program was developed in America, we are still a minority therefore we should bow to the cave people.  

Skip, what you are missing here is that users like myself collect DVDs of films made in other places. Some of them are in languages other than English. Why should I, an 'American' user be stuck with a feature set that does not work well for Asian names. If Ken wanted to limit DVDProfiler to your beloved Hollywood, why has he added to the feature set to support other languages, etc.

By the way I also buy films made in Hollywood, after all I was born there.

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I also have collectorz, which was written in germany, I believe, and has a few peculiarities, i simply cope with them. Same is truewith several other programs i use that have origins outside the US. I don't buy products made in China, largely because I have no desire providing to a Communistic regime. I don't whine and complain about it, I simply don't do it. I won't buy a Lenovo/IBM computer--China. Again I don't whine about it, I don't try and get China to do things the way i want them to, I just refuse to support them. If you really dislike Anerican culture that much which i doubt, and if you really think your antiquated culture is so superior....

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It is not a matter of which culture is superior, it is one of the best way to profile DVDs. For most 'Hollywood' films entering the cast and/or crew is easy, you type in the name, there is one match, you go with it. For most Asian films, you type in the name, you get two or more matches, you then need to figure out which is the 'common name', select it and then enter the 'credited as name'. This is a lot more work then is needed for most 'Hollywood' films. With French and Spanish films you have the added problem that the actor search does not match 'e', 'è' or 'é', leading to yet more steps to match it all up.

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You also requested that Ken remove the 'middle name' field.  Something that is cultural and would not solve the sorting problem.

I requested removing middle name to reduce sparsing problems (I never told it would solve everything). I explained that, with the example of Reverends, far before someone spoke of American culture. There was nothing cultural in my request.

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I understand that a large portion of the userbase is not American, but they purchased an American porgram.  As such, they should adapt to the programs format.

Are you saying that US companies (e.g. Invelos and Microsoft) should not design their programs to be used globally?

Is this a serious question?  Invelos is a single programmer that developed a program that became popular outside it's intended market.

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But then not all people here do agree that last name has anything to do with surname and that first and middle name have anything to do with given names. They tell us that those names are strictly positional.

So yes, I would agree that the rules should tell us what each field means.

I tell those people they are wrong.  If they were strictly positional, there would have been no reason for Ken to include an option to sort the name field 'Last, First Middle.'

I can understand why this explanation never made it into the rules but, given that some users can't seem to figure it out on their own, it should be added now.