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The official latinized name of the show is Märchen Mädchen, but as the character ä can not be used in danbooru tag, currently the tag in danbooru is marchen_madchen. However it seems like the general transcription rule as well as official material for the series prefer to romanize the ä as ae, as reflected by for example official publications, official site domain name, and official twitter account user name, therefore it seems like maerchen_maedchen would be a better name for the tag.
c933103 said:
The official latinized name of the show is Märchen Mädchen, but as the character ä can not be used in danbooru tag, currently the tag in danbooru is marchen_madchen. However it seems like the general transcription rule as well as official material for the series prefer to romanize the ä as ae, as reflected by for example official publications, official site domain name, and official twitter account user name, therefore it seems like maerchen_maedchen would be a better name for the tag.
That's how you write the ä in German as well. These are Germans words.
There you go this way:
ä = ae
ö = oe
ü = ue
So I agree with this.
current policy: forum #81436 forum #103434
would favor an alias though
ghostrigger said:
current policy: forum #81436 forum #103434
would favor an alias though
Well, I don't know how you'd write these words without accents, but umlauts do have an alternate spelling.
Replacing ä with a changes the spelling as well.
If an alias is to be made, it should be the other way around, from maerchen_maedchen to marchen_madchen. Otherwise we'd have to revise our policy of simply dropping diacritics from tags, which would also necessitate renaming a lot of other tags in order to remain consistent.
iridescent_slime said:
If an alias is to be made, it should be the other way around, from maerchen_maedchen to marchen_madchen. Otherwise we'd have to revise our policy of simply dropping diacritics from tags, which would also necessitate renaming a lot of other tags in order to remain consistent.
Except the title officially doesn't even have diacritics in the first place. It's romanized "Maerchen Maedchen": http://dash.shueisha.co.jp/feature/maerchenmaedchen/
EB said:
Except the title officially doesn't even have diacritics in the first place. It's romanized "Maerchen Maedchen": http://dash.shueisha.co.jp/feature/maerchenmaedchen/
Ah, I just assumed that @c933103 was right about "Märchen Mädchen" being the official name, since that's the version with more Google results.
