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Asian names
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantradjaxon
Registered: June 29, 2007
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Hi DVD Profiler folks,

I'm a newbie to this forum, so please forgive me if this question has already been addressed here, but my search didn't pick up the answer to this topic. 

I have a problem with duplication of Asian names, which, as you know, are written with the surname first in several countries.  One example is "Yimou Zhang," the amazing Chinese director.  Some of his films are present in the database with surname first, some with first name first.  Is there a way to find all DVDs regardless of order?  Or to locally "fix" my database?

TIA!
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
prev. known as ya_shin
Registered: March 13, 2007
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Taiwan, Province of China Posts: 3,436
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Asian Names have been discussed multiple times but a solution has not been found. Closest we got was this thread.

Of course you can fix it locally (I did so too). Just change the profiles so the name matches in all of them, maybe using the "credited as" feature to still represent how it is actually displayed on screen. Then lock the profiles which don't match the online database.
Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative)
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