Increased Character Support for Names and Characters

Improving Name Representation for Our Global Community

At IMDb, we are committed to accurately representing the identities of the entertainment industry professionals in our database. To better serve our global contributor community, we are expanding the character support for names.

 

Previously, we only accepted a limited set of characters (ISO-Latin-1 character set). This left us unable to properly display names for some parts of the world, as we only supported some accented characters mainly used in Western Europe. For some time, contributors have been requesting IMDb to support a more diverse set of characters to allow the accurate contribution of names that contain characters outside of the ISO-Latin-1 character set. 

 

Today we are pleased to announce that when submitting names, including character names, contributors can now use Latin Extended A and Extended B sets. For more information, please refer to the Supported Character Sets topic in our Help guide for submission top tips and tricks. 

 

We appreciate your patience and support as we work to make IMDb more inclusive and representative of the global entertainment industry. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

 

- The IMDb team