I personally think that the reasonable middle ground would be that
genuine accents and other real diacritical marks should be redirects
to the accentless form, but where it is a question of what looks like
an umlaut or circumflex or the like, actually being a completely
separate letter than the letter which lacks that graphical feature,
the misspelling used by ignorant English publications should be the
redirect. I really think such cases qualify as a misspelling, and not
a translitteration. But I don't expect to convince anyone. The
question in general should not excite great discord, as long as there
are redirects.
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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, AKA. Cimon Avaro
Candidate for Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation in the
September 2006 elections.