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tactical_nuke
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« on: November 09, 2014, 04:31:49 PM »

Just a quick question: Should we be putting foreign words like 'La' or 'El' at the end of a title like 'The'. I haven't seen any written like that despite it being pretty easy to do.
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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2014, 04:34:34 PM »

Technically, they're articles like "The", so I don't see why not...
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« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2014, 06:57:03 PM »

if it's as common as "The" then i would say they should, otherwise you're going to have thousands of titles listed under E or L
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2014, 12:44:45 AM »

Cool I'll just add it to my To Do list.
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« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2014, 09:14:00 AM »

Interesting point for Dutch titles starting with "Het", "De" or "Een". Same rules?

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« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2014, 10:57:36 AM »

It's the same kind of idea - those are articles. However, I'd try to stray away from trying to overdo it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...i/Library_catalog#Sorting

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Some languages know sorting conventions that differ from the language of the catalog. For example, some Dutch catalogs sort IJ as Y. Should an English catalog follow this suit?
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« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2015, 09:46:59 PM »

Also, some Japanese titles have their main title written in kanji. Shouldn't the romanized version be the main one and the kanji the alternative? Want to ask before I switch them on any entries.
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« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2015, 09:54:11 PM »

Also, some Japanese titles have their main title written in kanji. Shouldn't the romanized version be the main one and the kanji the alternative? Want to ask before I switch them on any entries.

Yeah, Romanized (Hepburn) should be the default.
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2015, 12:21:31 AM »

Unstuckied per request.

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