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		bklyn11201 on Nov 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a b... You will run into mountains of issues with USA systems if you insist on using the è. You will fill out physical paperwork at the hospital. How will it be translated by the typists and OCR? Passport matching against the airline information. Will it match? School enrollment: will all the username systems be ready for the UTF-8 character?

remram on Nov 5, 2021 | [–]

Even big carriers with automated workflows get this wrong, e.g. put "Rémi" in your Amazon address, get a confused UPS driver looking at a "RÃ©mi" label.

seanc on Nov 5, 2021 | [–]

Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/327

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