Why do webforms often refuse non-ASCII characters?

[Erik Carvalhal Miller]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM Andre Schappo via Unicode
<unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
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> From: Andre Schappo via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org>
> Reply-To: Andre Schappo <A.Schappo at 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…