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by dikaiosune 3825 days ago
Doesn't this happen in every language that borrows words? Accent/diacritic marks appear and disappear to suit the speakers/writers of the "guest" language.

Also regarding our US-centric naming conventions wouldn't it be very unconventional to include a non-ASCII character in the name of an imported library or called function?

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Yesterday I tried creating a Rails project with the name containing the Lithuanian character ė. In some parts the letter was reproduced correctly, in others it was incorrectly capitalised (it should be Ė - so not complicated - but was still the lowercase version), and in others was silently dropped :D