Support all latin characters for wider language support
(original title "Support UTF-8 instead of the Latin-1 charset")
I wrote about it already, yeah, but I described it just as Polish characters, whereas it's a global problem of international bands, so this could (possibly) get more votes. Changing the charset is a necessity for bands outside the countries listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1#Coverage
I realise this is quite a big thing to do, but it would really help bands outside the "major" countries.
now supporting all latin characters. if you need additional characters, please contact us in our forum – http://www.setlist.fm/forum/setlistfm/website-support – or create a new idea if you’d like additional alphabets (cyrillic anyone?). We’d prefer transliterations though.
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th1rtyf0ur commented
I must say I'm rather disappointed that only Latin characters were added. This is 2011, and it's the WORLD-WIDE Web, not just the US/European/Australian web. PLEASE add support for Unicode- musicbrainz offers romanizations for most non-latin artists that I've seen (i.e. http://musicbrainz.org/artist/442db9c0-b637-472e-a4bf-b189a4c52f00 -see "Sort name" on right side).
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th1rtyf0ur commented
Yes! There are lots of countries (and thus bands) that use other character sets. Fans from those countries, and fans of bands from those countries, should not be excluded because of an easily fixable technical limitation. Musicbrainz supports Unicode, so should setlist.fm.