[WikiEN-l] Accented characters (was Re: fancruft)

[mboverload]

Well Wikipedia is in Unicode...so yeah.

On 7/27/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> On 26 Jul 2006 at 15:31, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> > mboverload wrote:
> >
> > >I'm not sure why you're mentioning it, but I recently changed every
> mention
> > >of Pokemon to Pok?mon.
>
> [snip]
>
> > A few years ago there was a big debate over whether names should include
> > accents, and I believe that was settled back then.  This doesn't meant
> > that we don't have a few retro-luddites who would still believe that the
> > results should have been different.
>
> I guess whoever programmed the system that produces and distributes
> the digest form of this list is among those "luddites", since the
> digest is done in strict US-ASCII, and the accented letter above
> shows up as a question mark.
>
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