[WikiEN-l] Accented characters (was Re: fancruft)
Daniel R. Tobias
dan at tobias.name
Fri Jul 28 04:04:58 UTC 2006
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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