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Formatting of names with special characters in attributes
A recent episode of Marvel's What If...? included several credits for members of the Kanien'kehá:ka (aka Mohawk) nation, whose names may be causing the IMDb's formatting logic some difficulties due to their unusual (relative English-language text) use of punctuation.
One credit in particular, for Ránikonhrí:io Lazare, was displayed in the on-screen credits as "Ránikonhrí:io Lazare (Kade Lazare)", and so it was submitted (by some other user, I'm a latecomer to this) with an "(as...)" attribute, in addition to the "(voice)" attribute.
However, it's displaying in the Full Cast & Crew listing as "Ránikonhrí:io Lazare … Additional Voices (voice) (as Ránikonhrí)".
The shortening of the "(as...)" name seems to be caused by an extra space after the colon, in the actor's first name. That's visible in the Edit view, which shows the attribute field as "(voice) (as Ránikonhrí: io Lazare [Kade Lazare])".
I submitted an update to correct that (remove the space from "Ránikonhrí: io"), which was accepted, but the space is still present in the Edit view. Which makes me think that the IMDb systems are adding it automatically, possibly due to a bad assumption in the text processing/sanitization logic applied to attribute fields.
Meanwhile, on the actor's IMDb name listing, the credit is shown as "Additional Voices (voice, as Ránikonhrí: io Lazare [Kade Lazare])" — the full length of the name is displayed, but still with the incorrect space after the colon.
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Bethanny
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8 months ago
Hi @FeRDNYC -
I have reported this to our team in charge, ticket number V1193202077.
Cheers!
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Michelle
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3 months ago
Hi @FeRDNYC -
I can confirm that this issue has now been resolved.
Cheers!
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