# Should a recording title include an umlaut when the release had none? **URL:** \ **Category:** Style\ **Tags:** title, diacritics, musicbrainz, style\ **Created:** [November 6, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-a-recording-title-include-an-umlaut-when-the-release-had-none/502642 "2020-11-06T06:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/jesus2099/32/36_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-a-recording-title-include-an-umlaut-when-the-release-had-none/502642/2 "2020-11-06T08:05:48Z")
As there is only 1 track to this recording, we must consider what is [printed on the only release](https://musicbrainz.org/release/d26c29f6-f3fa-43c7-97c0-3f9bec15ae16/cover-art). And it shows: > HANSEL AND GRETEL. Adding an accent where it is missing on a full uppercase printed title is very different IMO than adding a letter that is not printed at all. I don’t know German but if Hänsel is correct, I think it’s good to add it. Because the lack of accents on uppercase is a limitation since the typewriter era and has always been more difficult to type because of this constraint initial use. I would also fix _L’ARLESIENNE_ to L’Arlésienne on the same release (oh it’s already done in the MB release anyway). _Adding_ a missing accent is not going away (from the tracklist). But adding an H wouldn’t be good as there is no such letter. This would be going away. If Gretel was incorrect, OK add the H, but if it’s an _alternate spelling_ or even the main spelling, then **keep it as printed**. And it seems to be no mistake as I see it spelt “und Gretel”, [2 400 000](https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&hl=fr&q=%22und%20gretel%22), way much more often than “und Grethel”, [28 800](https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&hl=fr&q=%22und%20grethel%22). What do you think? 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-a-recording-title-include-an-umlaut-when-the-release-had-none/502642)._