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Mykhailo Hrushevsky (Unicode characters in places of birth)
I was adding some basic facts about Mykhailo Hrushevsky after I've created the page editing one of my titles: usual basic stuff: trivia, portrayals, birth and death dates, links, etc.
For now date and place of death are a bit stuck in pending (which is okay and not out of the ordinary), but I had a bit of an uncertain situation with the place of birth, as well. That situation being that submission form was unable to process city name of Chełm correctly due to "ł" letter. I've replaced it with the usual "l" as a placeholder intent on asking IMDb Staff here to help with that, however I would love to know wether there's any method to avoid that issue? I am certain there is something, because I often have problems like that with Cyrillic alternate titles and yet people add such titles on regular basis.
For now date and place of death are a bit stuck in pending (which is okay and not out of the ordinary), but I had a bit of an uncertain situation with the place of birth, as well. That situation being that submission form was unable to process city name of Chełm correctly due to "ł" letter. I've replaced it with the usual "l" as a placeholder intent on asking IMDb Staff here to help with that, however I would love to know wether there's any method to avoid that issue? I am certain there is something, because I often have problems like that with Cyrillic alternate titles and yet people add such titles on regular basis.
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Will
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2 years ago
Thanks for your message. That's because we can only support certain unicode characters in alternate titles, due to the way we internally store and display our information in different list types. Unfortunately we cannot support those characters in other free-text lists.
I hope this helps to explain the situation.
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motley_moth
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2 years ago
The non-English letters and characters you can use in open-field forms are here: ISO Accented Characters. You'll usually need to enter them manually as HTML.
Only Russian Cyrillic is supported for AKAs. You can't enter Ukrainian Cyrillic directly; you have to substitute Russian Cyrillic. And, except for the Ukrainian 'і', which you must replace with the English 'i', you can't enter letters in Ukrainian Cyrillic that differ from Russian Cyrillic.
And, by the way, do not use the English Wikipedia for geographical names of any location in the former USSR or modern CIS, including Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. It is not a reliable resource. It's being run by several Russian-Americans immigrants who can't - or won't - speak English. Native English-speakers can immediately see that it's all in a laughable "Rusglish". It's neither Russian nor English, but a ridiculous, squishy mishmash of the two.
Use the Russian Wikipedia, and then transliterate the names using the IMDb rules. Since Russian was the official language of the USSR, you should also use it for locations in the Ukrainian SSR and BSSR. You can use the Ukrainian Wikipedia for current names in Ukraine. And don't forget to note the historical changes.
The place of death should be:
Kislovodsk, Severo-Kavkazskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Stavropolskiy kray, Russia]
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