It's more than that. In many languages, they aren't accents but different letters. In Swedish, the letter ä is not just an a with two dots over it. It's a compl

It's more than that. In many languages, they aren't accents but different letters. In Swedish, the letter ä is not just an a with two dots over it. It's a completely different letter, pronounced differently and is sorted in a different part of the alphabet. Changing ä to a could compeltely change the meaning of a word. For example, "räka" means shrimp, while "raka" means straight. The same goes for names. Misspelling the name by not using the correct characters is frustrating and shouldn't be necessary when we have Unicode. I think everyone can imagine how annoying it would be to have a random letter in one's own name be replaced by some other letter. Yes, I'm personally annoyed by this, since my name also has one of these letters.