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It's not minor, the implications of such mistakes are enormous (especially in the days of easy copy-pasting, semi-universal support for utf8 on the web, and ple
by tomcooks 7y ago
It's not minor, the implications of such mistakes are enormous (especially in the days of easy copy-pasting, semi-universal support for utf8 on the web, and plenty of ways to do research) on a cultural level.
Poor journalism and disdain for what's foreign, the ASCII way. Vae victis.
- 627467 7y agoI guess it should be 艾未未 rather than Ai Weiwei then...
- odiroot 7y agoI'm pretty much sure he'd be happy with Ài Wèiwèi
- brummm 7y agoIt's often the same with German names/words. Ü/U, etc are absolutely not the same and not equivalent. Leaving out the two dots on top of the U changes the whole word/meaning. Ü would be equivalently written as ue.
- tomcooks 7y agoI've always wondered if German speakers are generally ok with "ue"? I've seen it used on URL's
- magashna 7y agoIt can be easy to overlook. For instance I was curious about this TLD the other day .xn--6frz82g or .移动 Not sure how apt I would be to remember the English version or know which characters those are to type it in the native dialect.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago"Enormous"? No, not really, it's more of a nice to have. As a native speaker of an umlauty Nordic language, if you drop the umlauts, it's virtually always quite easy and in fact almost effortless to work out which words is being referred to from context.