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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by MadeThisToReply on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:34PM (#28932749)
Yep. For example, the name of the third-largest city in Poland is "Łódź", which might look like it's pronounced "lods", but is actually pronounced more like "wootch".
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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by garaetjjte on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:54PM (#28933003)
Sometimes you end up with parcel addressed to city "??d?". Shipping systems cannot cope with non-ASCII chars more often than I would expect...
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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by greenshackle2 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:00PM (#28936511)
I've seen shipping labels with HTML encoded characters, like é and è. I'm not sure if that's better or worse:

Łódź

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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by qwerty456127 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:06PM (#28938540)
This is a pretty frequent thing to encounter actually. Just some years ago many websites actually preferred to use ISO/Windows codepages to save space on multibyte Unicode symbols adding HTML entities to represent everything which is not in it the basic ASCII and their primary language alphabet.

Fun fact: I was looking for an e-mail solution for a small company about a decade ago and found Zarafa. It seemed nice and I deployed it happily. Just to find out it only supports the Western European ISO codepage which was hardcoded. I hope they have switched to UTF-8 since then.

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Re:I couldn't debug the code because of my name by qwerty456127 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:59PM (#28938492)
Always omit diacritics when giving your address/name to foreign parties which are going to have to ship you anything or issue any documents for you.
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