Quoting T!M:

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The thing is, though: it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter, but it is the main source of non linking, far more than parsing.

Explanation : When the real name of an actor is "André Maranne", credit makers have many solutions for the credits :
1/André Maranne
2/André MARANNE
3/ANDRE MARANNE (the generally most used)
4/ANDRÉ MARANNE

All this is perfectly correct per french typography rules, though the last solution (4) is rarely used, for historical reasons (at the time of writing machines (before 1990), this solution could not be used easily.

Those four credits are "automatically" read by french people, without thinking since it's totally obvious, André Maranne.

Ken has decided (though there is nothing in rules) that 1/, 2/ 4/ is André, and 3/ Andre.

For actors with many credits, we are quite sure to find two different names (and 4 for names like François Berléand), while using standard capitalization rule of the country of the cast member, we would have only one name, without linking problem.

So, no, it doesn't matter... it just adds to the mess of the online database, but everyone here agree (me the first), that the only important thing is to follow rules, specially when they are not written in the rules themselves but hidden somewhere in the forums.

Quoting T!M:

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Oops. Fixed! 

Oh well, I'm sure the intent was clear...

Can happen, we're all just human.

I see Forget beat me to it!

Quoting VirusPil:

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As we don't have a actor database which has a perfect "real" name ...

As for correct accentuation, just take IMDb's name. For French actors/actresses, I've quite never seen any error in the spelling, so I suppose Spanish, Italian, Scandivian or German names are correctly reproduced. And even if there are errors, they probably will never reach our fantastic result of quite 100%  accentuated names  with errors for a variant or another found in CLT.
And I doubt any copyright could be opposed to the use of André Maranne, as it is his real name. Of course, if they had chosen Andre Maranne... we are happy, our database is protected against them... 

Quoting surfeur51:

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Quoting VirusPil:

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As we don't have a actor database which has a perfect "real" name ...

As for correct accentuation, just take IMDb's name. For French actors/actresses, I've quite never seen any error in the spelling, so I suppose Spanish, Italian, Scandivian or German names are correctly reproduced. And even if there are errors, they probably will never reach our fantastic result of quite 100%  accentuated names  with errors for a variant or another found in CLT.
And I doubt any copyright could be opposed to the use of André Maranne, as it is his real name. Of course, if they had chosen Andre Maranne... we are happy, our database is protected against them... 

But this isn't as we should do according the rules.     
If we would search the right name for each actor, this would give for nearly every name a discussion like we would parse the name. 
That's why I think the solution we've is Ok.

Thx, Pete.

What I wanted to say: If we would always search for the "real name" as common name for DVDP, we would get discussions, like we got in past on parsing.
Even if André Maranne is the correct name there would be always one or two that would say we can't be sure, ... we need facts, ... found sites that say it's Andre Maranne. 
Btw, the argueing is often not just because of wanting it the correct, often it's just to be justified or just to don't justify another user. 

As long as DVDP hasn't a build in actor database, we have to go with the rules and the official statements from the forum. And as I wrote: Imho it's a very good way to treat it.

Just an FYI... Ken already has the beta ignoring parsing so hopefully name parsing will no longer be too much of a concern once the beta goes to full release...

From List of Changes:

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- Downloaded cast and crew will now match on full name if no direct name match found (ignoring name parsing)

Do we really have to go through this same old pointless discussion every time we're trying to establish a common name where some kind of accent is involved? Can't we just accept the simple fact that Mr. Maranne is usually credited without the accent on the "e" in his first name, and move on?