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>First off: And exclude 70% of the world? Guess what, I'm part of this 70% and I also work in a bank and I know exactly how. Not a single letter in my name (a
by Muromec 2y ago
>First off: And exclude 70% of the world?
Guess what, I'm part of this 70% and I also work in a bank and I know exactly how.
Not a single letter in my name (any of them) can be represented with ASCII. When it is represented in UTF-8, most of the people who have to see it can't read it anyway.
So my identity document issued by the country which doesn't use Latin alphabet includes ASCII-representation of my name in addition to canonical form in Ukrainian Cyrillic. That ASCII-rendering is happily accepted by all kinds of systems that only speak ASCII.
People still can't pronounce it and it got misspelled like yesterday when dictated over the phone.
Now regarding the accents, it's illegal to not support them per GDPR (as per case law, discussed here few years ago).
- numpad0 2y agoWhy can't these people understand that that 70% of the world consider ASCII to be "the computer language", not English, and UTF-8 to be "whatever soup that only works inside files and forms and can't be program manipulated"? Maybe it needs to be communicated more often, like way more often, until it sticks.
- Muromec 2y agoWell, it's much easier to understand the difference when one and another are using different alphabets.