There's not many accents or variations from basic ascii in english, so anything squiggly is usually confusing. In my language we use a few accents and character

There's not many accents or variations from basic ascii in english, so anything squiggly is usually confusing. In my language we use a few accents and character variations and I often meet Americans who have never seen such character variations like ç and get confused. Perhaps the author had similar experiences.