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>>notok+(OP)
Interesting article, I've had some similar (though significantly less severe) experiences with having ä and ß in my names, it seems many U. S. companies are just unwilling/incapable of going beyond ASCII.

The government being this sloppy at getting accents right is surprising, I would expect them to value accuracy and a clean paper trail when handling names.

http://archive.today/5h4v2

>>c0balt+G6
It's a question of scope, though.

Imagine you are an American designing a system. What about non-Latin alphabets? Yeah, these should probably be converted, nobody's going to bother with those. What about Hungarians, should we care about their O / Ó / Ö / Ő and U / Ú / Ü / Ű? And Icelanders - should we allow their Ð / Þ?

I understand that seeing your name misspelled hurts, but pretending ASCII is enough for everyone is an understandable simplification.

>>Andriy+iG
ASCII isn't even enough for English.

And yes absolutely we should bring Ð / Þ back for English use and drop those ridiculous digraphs.