Why do webforms often refuse non-ASCII characters?

[Phil Smith III]

Yeah, ok, that’s what I was expecting (modulo my self-inflicted confusion about your velarized L). Bríd-Áine shows up correctly for me, too. Your name, Sławomir, even shows up correctly in Aqua Mail. My eyes are getting really bad: I was specifically looking for the crossed-L there and still missed it! 

Of course this also might just be "Senility--not just a river in Africa."

-----Original Message-----
From: Sławomir Osipiuk <sosipiuk at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 5:57 PM
To: Phil Smith III <lists at akphs.com>; Andre Schappo <A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk>
Cc: unicode at corp.unicode.org
Subject: RE: Why do webforms often refuse non-ASCII characters?


On Thursday, 30 January 2025, 17:36:02 (-05:00), Phil Smith III wrote:

> I meant that André's display name shows up as Andre, without the accent. Yours shows as Slawomir Osipiuk, no velarized L. Are you seeing an accent on André in your MUA?
> 


I don't know for certain that the Ł in my name is displaying for everyone. It does show up correctly in the mailing list archive:
https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2025-January/thread.html

Bríd-Áine's name displays accurately, using the Q encoding like mine does. André's name, however, does not.