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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1048899" data-attributes="member: 18896">Fixing the TheTVdB bug is the right approach, so it fixes it for XBMC and all the other users in one fell swoop.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort+Batu" target="_blank">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort+Batu</a>&nbsp;Comes up empty, which is the problem you are dealing with. I added the English title for you via a duplicate of German one, which might trigger an update on the TheTVdB API, but you should go in and translate it all and add proper English entries. If it then still does not work; create a forum issue for TheTVdB admins to take a look at it.&nbsp;PS: Now that I added the English title, the show finally appears when searching for parts of the title, as in:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort" target="_blank">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort</a> shows the show now, so you can already make a match now manually by forcing an online match, adjust search string to just 'Tatort' and then scroll down the list of matches and pick 'Tatort Batu', but perhaps later on another API update it will work for direct title search, and you can still contact TheTVdB admins.&nbsp;PPS: Found problem, I can locate the series via: <a href="http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort Batu" target="_blank">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort</a> Batu&nbsp; which means some idiot added the show with a unicode space, which confuses the system. Will correct the German title with normal space, so that the '+' URI replacement character can make a match work.&nbsp;[Edit]: Unable to make a title edit, you will have to contact TheTVdB admins to do it. The adding of the correct English title with normal space would indirectly fix it, but you still need to provide a full translated entry then, or they might erase it, and it really should be fixed proper for the German title.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 1048899, member: 18896"] Fixing the TheTVdB bug is the right approach, so it fixes it for XBMC and all the other users in one fell swoop. [URL='http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort+Batu'][B]http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort+Batu[/B][/URL] Comes up empty, which is the problem you are dealing with. I added the English title for you via a duplicate of German one, which might trigger an update on the TheTVdB API, but you should go in and translate it all and add proper English entries. If it then still does not work; create a forum issue for TheTVdB admins to take a look at it. PS: Now that I added the English title, the show finally appears when searching for parts of the title, as in: [URL='http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort'][B]http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort[/B][/URL] shows the show now, so you can already make a match now manually by forcing an online match, adjust search string to just 'Tatort' and then scroll down the list of matches and pick 'Tatort Batu', but perhaps later on another API update it will work for direct title search, and you can still contact TheTVdB admins. PPS: Found problem, I can locate the series via: [URL='http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort Batu'][B]http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Tatort[/B][/URL][B] Batu[/B] which means some idiot added the show with a unicode space, which confuses the system. Will correct the German title with normal space, so that the '+' URI replacement character can make a match work. [Edit]: Unable to make a title edit, you will have to contact TheTVdB admins to do it. The adding of the correct English title with normal space would indirectly fix it, but you still need to provide a full translated entry then, or they might erase it, and it really should be fixed proper for the German title. [/QUOTE]

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