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Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010) by 4ggr0 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @07:40AM (#26375422)
European websites and services usually don't cause any issues for me.

But lots of US websites and services don't like the "ë" in my name and tell me that it's an invalid character.

Yeah, seems like I have an illegal character on my passport, thanks for telling me.

Re:Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010) by laurent92 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:39AM (#26377290)
And autocomplete doesn’t work without accents: Ke... doesn’t suggest Kévin in @mention systems.