Longer names/aliases [DONE]

[rowaasr13]

I'd like to have longer names/aliases or &#nnnn; entries treated as one char. Right now I can't add alias Пламенный лабиринт - I get "ERROR: 2 - name too long".

[Gambit]

At least use proper text, since I can`t do anything with textcodes
And well ... with such aliases with only codes, of course it wouldn`t work ...

[wahaha]

Does it really help if it's shown in its decoded form? ^^

Пламенный лабиринт

[As it's in this thread's context, let me refine my previous feature-request from Change encoding to UTF-8 [DENIED]]

IMO, instead of just increasing the possible lenght of aliases, it'd be much better to also properly distinguish them, for example like this:
"Original title (Japanese, Kanji)"
"Original title (Japanese, Romaji)"
"Original title (Other)"
"Official translation (English)"
"Unofficial translation (English)"
"Other titles"
If the English- and the Romaji-entries would be limited to ASCII, these could be used whenever unicode doesn't get to work.

An example:

"Original title (Japanese, Kanji)": 宇宙のステルヴィア
"Original title (Japanese, Romaji)": Uchuu no Stellvia
"Unofficial translation (English)": Stellvia of the Universe, Cosmic Stellvia

[rowaasr13]

At least use proper text, since I can`t do anything with textcodes

See topic referenced by wahaha - &#nnnn; is prefered way of writing non-ASCII names.

And well ... with such aliases with only codes, of course it wouldn`t work ...

It works quite well, see http://anidb.ath.cx/perl-bin/animedb.pl ... e&aid=1272 or http://anidb.ath.cx/perl-bin/animedb.pl ... e&aid=1171 for example. Alias above doesn't work just because it happens to be longer, not because it uses &#nnnn; notation.

I really like what wahaha suggests and it'd be really great if it could be implemented that way.

[Iceman[grrrr]]

But Wahaha's suggestion means DB changes... and more work for Exp so a long delay before it may be implemented!

[Gambit]

An example:

"Original title (Japanese, Kanji)": 宇宙のステルヴィア
"Original title (Japanese, Romaji)": Uchuu no Stellvia
"Unofficial translation (English)": Stellvia of the Universe, Cosmic Stellvia

Looks pretty interesting to me, indeed.

[PetriW]

Anyone know how those "摟珮" actually work? I made a few assumptions and got kanji but not kana / korean characters working in AniDB O'Matic.
If someone knows a webpage detailing this stuff so little lazy me won't have to find it I'd appreciate it!

[rowaasr13]

Numbers are decimal unicode positions. I posted it in previous thread, but here you are again: small convertor I've programmed in 10 minutes that will convert any input to this notation.

URL: http://www.lglobus.ru/~rover/test/utf8tohtml.pl
Source: http://www.lglobus.ru/~rover/test/utf8tohtml.rar

[rowaasr13]

But Wahaha's suggestion means DB changes... and more work for Exp so a long delay before it may be implemented!

Ahem, don't you say that about ANY change? Of course it wont appear from thin air by itself!

It is not much work, actually. Only new types have to be added in addition to already existing name/alias/short name. Shuffling data around to new types is work for dedicated users, not exp.

[PetriW]

Urgh that doesn't help much to be honest, you say Unicode but Unicode is a lot more than just "Unicode". If you could dig up the docs you used as base for that script it might be better.

[rowaasr13]

No docs were harmed in creation of this script. Heh.
Well, what exactly you want to know? Send a letter to rover@lglobus.ru, I guess it's not necessary to discuss it in this topic.

[PetriW]

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