Allow longer names [DONE]

rowaasr13 · Post by **rowaasr13** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 8:05 am

This thread is to replace my previous request, because that thread was overtaken by another important discussion.

There's already several title I wan't to add, but since they're pretty long and they're in japanese and therefore I use &#nnnnn; I hit name lenght limit.

So I want either longer names allowed or count &#nnnnn; as one symbol while counting lenght for purpose of checking if it's too long or not.

Skywalka · Post by **Skywalka** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 8:43 pm

dude, I guess you mean "taken over" not overtaken ^_^

Your thread is not a car on the road ^_^

Post by **nwa** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:45 pm

your thread was overtaken?

that was quite funny..

anyway, why not add the romanji instead of the syllables...most of the ppl (including me) can't read kanji/katakana/hiragana while everyone can read romanji and some can understand them after watching countless of animes...
I'm against adding japanese characters to anidb, but it has already been done countless of times so...

kidan · Post by **kidan** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:40 am

I think - as stated in the took over thread - seperate fields for these info would be nice.

PS: If we are a bit nitpicky here: it's roumaji (no 'n')

Source: http://lrnj.com/primer.php
'Note: There is no n in roumaji! Lots of confused students write it, "romanji." Please kick anyone you catch doing that. "Romaji" is the most conventional English spelling, and the one you should probably use, but I use "roumaji" here as the accurate phonetic spelling in the roumaji style I use for Project LRNJ.'

So /me kicks nwa. *g*

Post by **PetriW** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:49 am

My japanese teachers always write "romaji". Fyi it's spelled "ローマ字" in japanese, no u in there, just a long o.

Iceman[grrrr] · Post by **Iceman[grrrr]** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:01 pm

long o are spelt "ou" in my japanese book... i guess there's nothing decided for that!

all in all, don't add romaji to the DB or there will always be creq to modify them!

Post by **PetriW** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:52 pm

Most common sign I see for long o is ō for katakana (in the 4 books I use). Reason you see ou is because long o with hiragana is indeed written ou.

rowaasr13 · Post by **rowaasr13** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:43 am

Long o is almost always ou, except few words where it is oo, so you can see ou in hiragana and even in katakana too. Just try google search for ろうま字 or even ロウマ字. There's similar thing for long e. When you see エー in katakana, there's very high chance it will be ei in hiragana or roumaji.

rowaasr13 · Post by **rowaasr13** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:44 pm

I still can't add long names to DB myself, yet I see there are some names in it already, much longer than those I can't add. Does that mean that at least mods can do now such a thing and I can fill creqs for those long names?

wahaha · Post by **wahaha** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:42 pm

"Пламенный лабиринт", I suppose? ^^;

The titles take much longer entries now (not restricted to mods), but only as long as they're "Official (Japanese, Kanji)", not for "Official (Other)"...

Post by **exp** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 7:05 pm

official title (other) will now also allow longer titles.

BYe!
EXP