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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0002835Virtual Moon Atlas1-Softwarepublic25-06-18 10:18
ReporterFrank Stefani Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionno change required 
PlatformPCOSLinuxOS Version64bit
Summary0002835: Wrong crater name spelling, thus won't be found
DescriptionVMA-v9.0 (Linux / Ubuntu *.deb)

Wrong: Stofler (without umlauts and without requiered double "ff")

Should read: Stöffler (Johannes Stöffler)

The line below the wrong STOFLER (blue) name is almost correct, though: "Johann Stöffler"
But "Stö..." won't find anything.
Steps To ReproduceTry searching crater "stö..." gives no result
Additional InformationOfficial information about astronomer "Johannes Stöffel" in Wikipedia:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_St%C3%B6ffler
Tagsastronomer, crater, name, vma

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Patrick Chevalley

25-06-18 10:18

administrator   ~0009420

This is the IAU official name.
Because VMA can be used all around the world with keyboard that not include the umlauts we make the choice to use the IAU "Clean Name" field as the main formation name. It not contain any diacritics, this is the one we use for the label and the search.

See: https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5736

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
25-06-18 09:37 Frank Stefani New Issue
25-06-18 09:37 Frank Stefani Tag Attached: astronomer
25-06-18 09:37 Frank Stefani Tag Attached: crater
25-06-18 09:37 Frank Stefani Tag Attached: name
25-06-18 09:37 Frank Stefani Tag Attached: vma
25-06-18 10:18 Patrick Chevalley Status new => resolved
25-06-18 10:18 Patrick Chevalley Resolution open => no change required
25-06-18 10:18 Patrick Chevalley Note Added: 0009420