Don Redman wrote:
> Can we please settle this one?
>
> Looking at the album listing of Tchaikovsky, there does not seem to be
> a single album in cyrillic script. Considering the way MB currently
> works (everywhere Albums are presented with the actual artist name, not
> with a t9/13n or script/language-specific alias), it might be
> _possible_ to write his name in cyrrilic, but it makes no sense
> whatsoever.
>
> I suggest that an official guideline should be issued, that states
> something like the following:
>
> Use the common English transliteration of ArtistNames for artists that
> have releases in multiple languages.
> Use the native script for artists that have releases in their native
> script only.
>
> I do not know how to deal with edge cases, in which the artist has
> _most_ releases in his native script, but Scheikowski is definitely of
> the first case.
>
> DonRedman
That language needs tweaking, since as phrased it would apply to nearly
every Japanese artist and a fair amount of Korean and Chinese ones as well.
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