There is definitely need for proper Unicode support on IMDb. While I understand they don't want people to insert random letters and formatting characters; certain ranges should at least be allowed.
They are making slow progress, allowing Japanese characters fairly recently I think. But none of this has to do with lack of respect. It takes time changing what encoding is used, and IMDb started before Unicode was much of a thing.
However, I'd still argue that they should have at least updated to Unicode by now. But the code might be very complicated and hard to deal with.
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Thanks.We will convert this over to the "Idea" section such that other users can vote / comment upon it for future consideration.
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There is definitely need for proper Unicode support on IMDb. While I understand they don't want people to insert random letters and formatting characters; certain ranges should at least be allowed.
They are making slow progress, allowing Japanese characters fairly recently I think. But none of this has to do with lack of respect. It takes time changing what encoding is used, and IMDb started before Unicode was much of a thing.
However, I'd still argue that they should have at least updated to Unicode by now. But the code might be very complicated and hard to deal with.
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