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Accented characters in single-name authors' names
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I was fixing an author who I was unaware had accent marks and it prompted me to merge with an accented author. I assumed it was a feature to help with duplicate authors.... but if that's the case I don't think its possible to disambiguate by accents.

Well, shoot. Good new feature, unexpected bad side effect! The benefits of this will almost certainly outweigh the problems, but does anyone have a suggestion about how to handle this particular edge case? Does poor Cesar just have to live with César's books?
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
No matter what I do, it keeps trying to merge into the GR author profile for Cesar:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
I don't know if this is a bug or just something weird with my computer....
(See this post from Cesar for more info. César should be listed as the illustrator for these three books.)