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Questions: Parallel or its own? / Shouldn't card names be in Italian?

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vrooomed

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Saturday, January 6, 2018 10:51 PM

Better to say umlaut than type it. Gotta say angrily. Try it. Then say Dachshund the same way. Then Weinerschnitzel. It's funny. At least we did when they did that at a baseball game here.

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ranfordfan

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Sunday, January 7, 2018 12:35 PM

And this is what I meant by not knowing exactly. I would have assumed that those cards would have PIDs as well in case they are in different sets and so on. Again that is not my knowledge base. I did send a quick question to Admin about it as if anyone should admit being wrong it should be the ones questioning it. =) I have not heard from Admin yet but quoting Dan below makes way more sense to me now. If no PIDs then it would make sense to "copy" the card in hand.

vrooomed wrote:

Years ago. Admin has made several changes to the database which now can use the foreign charatcers.

Names should still use English spelling for PIDs, but then the foreign spelling(s) can be used as Aliases (which then allows the sets to use either and will auto link).

In a set that won't get PIDs, why shouldn't the text in thw database be the same as it appears on the card?

switzr1 wrote:

Yeah, didn't this come up a few years ago with a Scandinavian member entering hockey checklists asking about using umlauts and Admin said no?

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ranfordfan

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Saturday, January 27, 2018 9:14 AM

Finally got an answer this morning from the busy crew above, to finalize this thread. Vrooomed is correct. If the card does not have a PID and you are using the wording on the card in the name field then use the language that is on the card. As always listen to the gurus, thanks aas always vrooomed. =D

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vrooomed

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Saturday, January 27, 2018 9:31 AM

That Admin is a smart one!

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