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

Fri Jul 28 04:04:58 UTC 2006

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.

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