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Romanian diacritics not accepted in IMDb reviews
Hello,
I encountered what appears to be a character-support issue while submitting a review on IMDb.
My review was not accepted when it contained Romanian diacritics (ă, â, î, ș, ț). I had to replace them with their basic Latin equivalents (a, a, i, s, t) before I could submit it successfully.
What makes this particularly strange is that I tested other European diacritics, including German characters such as ä, ö and ü, and the review was accepted without any issue.
Romanian diacritics are standard Unicode characters, so I would expect them to be supported in IMDb user reviews just like German and other Latin-script diacritics.
Could you please confirm whether this is an intended restriction or a bug? If it is a bug, I would appreciate it if support for Romanian diacritics could be corrected.
Thank you.
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temiecanu
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142 Points
21 days ago
I understand that the current limitation may be related to IMDb’s older support for the ISO-8859-1 / Latin-1 character set, which would explain why many Western European characters are accepted while Romanian characters such as ă, ș and ț are not.
I would therefore like to request that IMDb expand character support in reviews and summaries to include Romanian diacritics. Historically, Romanian characters were covered partly by ISO-8859-2 / Latin-2, but today the preferable solution would be full Unicode support, including the correct modern Romanian characters ă, â, î, ș and ț.
Since IMDb already supports a broader range of characters in titles and names, it would be useful for review and summary fields to support the same character set as well.
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Fran
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21 days ago
Hello temiecanu
For User Reviews as mentioned in the User Review Guidelines:
"Please write in English only"
The characters you want to use are not allowed, therefore the system is not accepting the review.
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