Why do webforms often refuse non-ASCII characters?

Andreas Prilop 🇮🇱 aprilop at fn.de
Thu Jan 30 05:20:18 CST 2025


Bríd-Áine Parnell wrote:

> What I mean is, if for example Seán is spelled Seán on some systems
> and Sean on others, wouldn't that mean that some attempts to summon up
> his records would fail?

You can fail on ASCII-only characters with Tsarnaev and Tsarnayev.



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