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I was at Xerox when they were inventing i18N in the mid 1980s. They were so excited when I started because my real name is Mairé and not Maire. They wanted my l
by maire 7y ago
I was at Xerox when they were inventing i18N in the mid 1980s. They were so excited when I started because my real name is Mairé and not Maire. They wanted my login name to include the acute accent.
Over time all of the i18N people left for Apple. My login broke and I removed the accent. When I went to Apple I never bothered to add the accent again even though I was friends with the Unicode gang. I never added it back.
- sushid 7y agoUsername relevant :(
- jacurtis 7y agoOuch, that one hits close to home
- jajaioxjeyo 7y agoMan that's depressing
- satya71 7y agoWell, my name cannot be accurately represented in Latin characters. Most people in Taiwan adopt an English name because the Mandarin one is hard on computers and communicating with English-speaking businesses.