09-19-2016, 11:34 AM
If you had actually read the post I brought it up in, you'd realize this is anything but arbitrary. It's an extremely specific edge-case that came about because the regular expression engine in MySQL does not handle multi-byte characters well and, as a result, was causing a duplicate (and incorrect) entry for the game to appear. This is only a problem when the first letter of a game's name is an accented character - accents in literally any other position in the word have no impact on display and can (and should) therefore be left in-tact.