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Re:Gitmoji – Yay or Nay? by nkrisc on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:13AM (#21762477)
Precisely. Even when writing by hand, where there are no character encoding limitations, I've never seen anyone add the accents to "fiance" or "cafe" or "resume" when writing in English.
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Re:Gitmoji – Yay or Nay? by chrisseaton on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:46AM (#21762783)
> I've never seen anyone add the accents to "fiance" or "cafe" or "resume" when writing in English.

We have café all the way from McDonalds up to Buckingham Palace.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/menu/mccafe.html

https://www.rct.uk/visit/the-state-rooms-buckingham-palace

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Re:Gitmoji – Yay or Nay? by spadros on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @12:04PM (#21764398)
"I only see such spellings when people are trying to convey some sort of sophistication"

McCafe and Buckingham Palace would want the "sophistication angle". Both spellings work obviously, but IMO (and the majority of English books) "cafe" is the "correct" spelling.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caf%C3%A9%2Cca...

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Re:Gitmoji – Yay or Nay? by nkrisc on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:56AM (#21762884)
You've quoted me out of context. I was referring to handwriting. Besides, I would bet dropping the accent is more common than including it.
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