Wrong Spelling of Album and Song Titles (Russian iTunes Store)

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Wrong Spelling of Album and Song Titles (Russian iTunes Store)

The spelling of album and song titles is incorrect and inconsistent.

In contrast to English, it is incorrect to capitalize every word of titles in Russian.

Example. Currently, the best-selling album by Zemfira is spelled "Zit V Tvoey Golove,"* but should be "Zhit' v tvoey golove." Every song is also misspelled.

It is very inappropriate to apply English rules for Russian language. What's up with the grammar of iTunes Store managers? If you make such mistake, then at least be consistent and don't capitalize prepositions 🙂.

* "Zhit' V Tvoey Golove" means "To Live Inside Your Head"

P.S. I used Latin instead of Cyrillics because this site doesn't display the latter correctly. Considering that Russian support website points here for Q&A, it is odd not to support appropriate encoding.

Posted on Mar 14, 2013 11:30 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 15, 2013 6:40 AM in response to superigor

I doubt Apple has anything to do with the transliterations provided by song publishers, but you can let them know at

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 15, 2013 7:10 AM in response to superigor

superigor wrote:

P.S. I used Latin instead of Cyrillics because this site doesn't display the latter correctly.

That is not normal, this is a Unicode site and many people have posted in Cyrllic and all kinds of other scripts in the past. Something is broken today, and I have asked the hosts to look into it.

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