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For non-latin titles, cf this post I recently made in admin section about these characters:
All what is not latin-based should be put in comments for the moment.
I should change the database encoding to unicode to allow any character (so many things to do with so little time...) to allow a good handling of all these exotic characters.
Currently it can only store characters from ISO-9959-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#Code_page_layout
Which includes most of the characters used in Western Europe (except French œ/Œ dropped for some reason from the first drafts, or uppercase ÿ).
If a character other than those listed there is entered in a field, it is converted in a HTML entity:
where number = its unicode number, usually 4 or 5 digits.
Meaning it takes the same space as 7 or 8 basic characters.
It is OK for just one or two special character in a title for movies from Eastern Europe for example, but when all the characters have to be encoded that way you quickly reach the max lenght of the field.
It will work for short movie titles though.
For some car makes, the special character is removed for storage and then added for display.
Like if you enter Skoda or Škoda, it is stored as Skoda then displayed as Škoda.
But it is not the case for all, I only did that for the main ones.
I should change the database encoding to unicode to allow any character (so many things to do with so little time...) to allow a good handling of all these exotic characters.
Currently it can only store characters from ISO-9959-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#Code_page_layout
Which includes most of the characters used in Western Europe (except French œ/Œ dropped for some reason from the first drafts, or uppercase ÿ).
If a character other than those listed there is entered in a field, it is converted in a HTML entity:
&#number;
where number = its unicode number, usually 4 or 5 digits.
Meaning it takes the same space as 7 or 8 basic characters.
It is OK for just one or two special character in a title for movies from Eastern Europe for example, but when all the characters have to be encoded that way you quickly reach the max lenght of the field.
It will work for short movie titles though.
For some car makes, the special character is removed for storage and then added for display.
Like if you enter Skoda or Škoda, it is stored as Skoda then displayed as Škoda.
But it is not the case for all, I only did that for the main ones.