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Better way to handle localized titles
This is mainly an issue with videos that use Youtube's localization feature.
For instance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0Lxif1u9E
Original Japanese title: RADWIMPS - すずめ feat.十明 [Official Lyric Video]
Localized English title: Radwimps - Suzume (ft. Toaka) [lyric video]
Currently, there is no indication that this video has multiple original titles, so a DeArrow submitter may submit a title in only one language, which overrides the original title for the other language. For example, Radwimps - Suzume (ft. Toaka) [lyric video]
(https://dearrow.minibomba.pro/video_id/Xs0Lxif1u9E) was submitted for the linked video.
A few proposals (I've mentioned them in the Discord at some point or another):
- Check
https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=
to find the original title, and check if it's the same as the currently displayed title- Cons: If a Japanese submitter sees the JP title and thus submits a JP title, they still override the localized EN title
- Add a way to tag the submitted title's language upon submission
- Cons: more database usage