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  • Tor Lillqvisttml@urbanists.social
    Sep 3, 2024, 10:51 AM

    @stephaniewalter Personally I refuse to use the term “special character”. There is nothing special about é, å, þ, etc. Millions of people use them every day, have them in their names, addresses etc.

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  • Stef Walterstephaniewalter
    Sep 3, 2024, 12:33 PM

    @tml yes but if I say "time to start accepting diacritics and other non Latin characters" I don't think people will get what I mean.
    Also, I funnily, I think I have this joke in one version of the talk where I went "because the other characters weren't special enough?"
    But, yeah, I agree, nothing special with a é. I also hate when they say "non English characters", that means, nothing.

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  • soaprootsoaproot@sfba.social
    Sep 3, 2024, 4:55 PM

    @stephaniewalter @tml I mean there are various choices like "accept a full range of characters" "accept so-called special characters" and probably others. But I especially like your "the other characters weren't special enough" line. Wouldn't want to take away a good joke just to make a point <wink>

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  • Stef Walterstephaniewalter
    Sep 3, 2024, 7:12 PM

    @soaproot "accept all characters because they are all special an deserve love" 😁
    But yeah more seriously, accept them all and you don't need to write annoying error messages haha
    @tml

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