Why do webforms often refuse non-ASCII characters?

[Andre Schappo]

From: em11001001 at gmail.com <em11001001 at gmail.com> on behalf of Erik Carvalhal Miller <ecm.unicode at gmail.com>
Sent: 30 January 2025 16:26
To: Andre Schappo <A.Schappo at lboro.ac.uk>
Cc: unicode at corp.unicode.org <unicode at corp.unicode.org>; Bríd-Áine Parnell <bridaine.parnell at ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Why do webforms often refuse non-ASCII characters?

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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…

Ah! 🙂 We still have several systems and databases at my University which are ASCII only. So on some of our systems I am Andre or Andr� . It will be several years more before these ASCII systems are replaced with Unicode systems. That is the reason why my University email has me as Andre.

André Schappo
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