Sort of tangential, my family is French and I regularly get in touch with them by email. I haven't touched a French keyboard in a long time, so I actually used

Sort of tangential, my family is French and I regularly get in touch with them by email. I haven't touched a French keyboard in a long time, so I actually used to know all the ctrl+# combinations for special (i.e. non ASCII 65-90) French characters. I got lazy, it was too cumbersome, so I ended up dropping accents altogether (to the horror of my classical French teacher dad). My emails are completely understandable, but some edge cases can sometimes make it a little bit difficult. Ironically though, while I don't type them, I'm very aware of the accents, and this decision to drop the circumflex rubs me the wrong way, particularly since I've been taught to always be aware of the roots of words (thank you, Dad). As an aside to this tangent, my family name contains a "ë", "e" with a "tréma", an accent which is used in only a handful of words. Upon moving away from France, the administration I was dealing with tried to input my name in their system, which it broke (reminded of https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/ here). Since then, I've dropped the accent from my name entirely, which has arguably made things easier in foreign countries. The main issue with dropping the accent is that my name now translates to "toy", and while the pronunciation of my name is the same as the object nowadays, it didn't use to, so dropping the accent means losing a bit of history (including meaning). On the other hand, I noticed that authorities don't care about the accent, at all, not even French ones. My various IDs switched from the version with an accent to the one without, and absolutely nobody picked up on it.