• notarobot@lemmy.zip
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      30 days ago

      Yeah… Accents are a pain.

      They are also a pain to type. Where I live there are 2 keyboard layouts: Spanish and Latin. 99% of people don’t know how to tell them apart which means that their hardware keyboard does not match the setting on the computer, so the label on the keyboard does not match with what is typed. There are also two accents in the keyboard: á, and à which are hard to distinguish one the key starts rubbing off.

      All of this means that a lot of people don’t even know how to type an accent, and a lot of us never remember when we should be typing them anyway

      On top of that this (programming) language, doesn’t even support them. Probably because they cause a lot of encoding issues