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The Curse of the Diaeresis (2016)
- YeGoblynQueenne 11y agoAlso, it is rare enough that it completely messes up scripts and stuff that hopes to match [a-zA-Z], or even locale-sensitive \w's.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoSo will acute accents, which aren't incredibly rare. It's not unusual to see the accent preserved in fiancée.
- samuellb 11y agoBetter check for characters that aren't letters in ASCII, and assume that everything else is a letter (i.e. including Unicode). Not 100% correct, but simple and future proof. And when it comes to the diaeresis, it's rare enough that it will create confusion for people who are used to German, Swedish, Finish, etc. (except for in words like naïve where there's no risk for confusion).