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Translations of actors' names
posted by Ayrapetov TigranSTAFFMOD on March 28, 2020 at 4:25 PM
Hello! I'd like to know if translations of actors' names are in your plan or maybe I can get base of actors' names from you and translate it by myself? I need possibility to use actors' names in Russian language.
Thank you in advance.
Reply by talestalker
on March 28, 2020 at 10:26 PM
Here is the relevant Trello ticket for this feature. You can vote for it if you make a Trello account.
Reply by Rossini
on March 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Can I also see the actor's names in my own language (or English only)? I understand that people speaking russian or asian (or other languages) appreciate this, but I can't even read them.
And if it is possible, then how do I do this?
Reply by talestalker
on March 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This is a 100% user contributed database, so in order to see the transliteration of non-latin names into your own language it is first necessary for another user to add it. Unfortunately, this is quite a demanding job (I myself spent several months adding transliterations of about 18k Japanese names (out of 130k+) into Czech) and it depends a lot on the popularity of your language whether someone will commit to it consistently. For this reason I recommend using fallback to English.