That must be irritating. As a "Philip" I'm somewhat sensitive to getting my name right--it's not "Phillip" with two "L"s! The (surprising number of) people who see it as "Phil Smith" and reply "Dear Phill" are particularly irritating. And I bet Erik is tired of "Eric". It's just rude. Though if the headers say "Andre" and the body says "André" I'm sort of inclined to give someone a pass--once. After that, it's just laziness.
Curious, though, André--quoted printable works in email address display names; are you using an MUA that doesn't support that? Or is the list server doing this to you? -----Original Message----- From: Unicode <unicode-boun...@corp.unicode.org> On Behalf Of Erik Carvalhal Miller via Unicode Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 11:26 AM To: Andre Schappo <a.scha...@lboro.ac.uk> Cc: unicode@corp.unicode.org Subject: Re: Why do webforms often refuse non-ASCII characters? On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode@corp.unicode.org> wrote: > > From: Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode@corp.unicode.org> > Reply-To: Andre Schappo <a.scha...@lboro.ac.uk> > In digital communication, the majority of people write my name as Andre > instead of André. Why? They see me write my name as André. Does the diacritic > not register with them. The diacritic does not always register with your digital communication. When I encountered these mentions of your name with the acute accent, I actually did a double take and scrolled back up to the message headers to verify the memory of what I had seen, for the lack of diacritic had registered with me…
