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Saturday, March 16th, 2024 2:53 PM

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Language Order

The language order is supposed to imply the "relative prominence", but when there are multiple languages and one of them has an empty order field, the language is shown before numbered languages.

I suggest that languages with empty order fields be shown last.

If empty means zero, then the order might as well be a mandatory positive integer, or it should be sorted last.

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8 months ago

For example, the movie Rosa's Wedding currently shows English as the most prominent language because the order column is empty for that row.

It's clear from the remarks that it's not the primary spoken language, but the movie's main page makes it seem like it's English instead of Spanish.

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Carlito: I agree with your suggestion regarding languages without order numbers being listed last.

Your example also shows how IMDb does not display attributes for languages. I don't understand why IMDb accepts the attributes (Valencian) and (some dialogue) without displaying them to users.

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@gromit82​ good point. Perhaps a tooltip should show the attribute value.

I just noticed that this also affects search filters, as that movie appears under English (primary) and not Spanish (primary).

The "Search primary language only" checkbox would also benefit from better sorting.

 

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8 months ago

@CarlitoGil Thanks for the post but this is not an “Idea” as such.  If there’s a title where any of the languages do not have an order number then those can simply be added and the problem goes away — as is now the case with Rosa’s Wedding

@gromit82  The lack of language attribute display is a known bug, but it has not been prioritised yet, sorry.