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

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Daniel R. Tobias 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.
> 

Why, praytell, are you using digests???

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