On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:35:48AM +0200, Giuseppe Crinò wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:29 AM SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If we go down this route, then someone might want to write ő as o" or > > ű as u", which still supposed to be used in pairs, but what if someone > > wants to write ä as a:, ö as o:, ü as u:, ç as "c,", ş as "s,", etc. > > I don't know any language that uses ő or ű so I can't tell but it's > definitely possible. The Hungarian alphabet has both, and I've seen them written like this on old typewritten documents. But that was decades ago, nowadays they are either written properly as ő and ű, or without any accent at all (banks...). > In my country, sometimes the last name ends with > an accented letter (mine ends with an "o grave") and people end up use > a single quote to avoid pissing off computers. That's standard thing. > > In my current team I don't know enough of the setup of my colleagues > (they may use CP1252) and that ò may be badly decoded.
