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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>André Schappo wrote:<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#0A2F41'>>Ah! </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black'>🙂</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#0A2F41'> We still have several systems and databases at my University<br>>which are ASCII only. So on some of our systems I am Andre or Andr? .<br>>It will be several years more before these ASCII systems are replaced<br>>with Unicode systems. That is the reason why my University email has<br>>me as Andre.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><br></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'><br>And there’s the real reason you lose your diacritic: like Erik, they first see your name without it and go with that. If my email display name said “Philip” I wouldn’t wonder why people started notes with that instead of “Phil”, even if I signed as “Phil”. For that matter, most people who do start notes that way (which, to be honest, I’ve never understood, unless it’s a group email and they’re trying to say something directly to me) DO use “Phil”, even though I’ve signed as “...phsiii” for 45 years. I don’t think this counts as “</span><span style='color:black'>Lack of interest/initiative/willingness/laziness/curiosity</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>”.<br><br>Note the OP’s question, I realize!<br><br>And now I’ve probably said too much on this thread and will STFU. <others heave sighs of relief><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>