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Re:The plague of emoji insertion in French docs by generalizations on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:29PM (#33598611)
There was a comment the other day in the discussion about incorporation in Germany. Someone complained that in Germany, they conduct their business in German: the justification was, it's our country, our language, get used to it.

Maybe the blunt response to complaints about the US American bias is, it's our software, our (ASCII/Unicode) language, get used to it.

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Re:The plague of emoji insertion in French docs by 9dev on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:24AM (#33606277)
If I was trying to incorporate in the USA, and the registration form would be unable to process diacritics, sure — even though that would neglect a large part of your own population (see the ASCII debacle) — but we’re talking about internet services marketed globally. I don’t think it’s too much to ask to have an app at least working as designed. We’re not even talking about translating stuff!
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