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by vlabakje90 565 days ago
Not every other country in the world only uses ASCII, Ivory Coast is officially called Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
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You're demonstrating the exact point by showing that they have an ASCII name and an official one. If you're having a regular conversation with someone you're probably going to use Ivory Coast and not the French name.
That's arguably an English name, not an "ASCII name". (If there was one, it would probably be "Cote d'Ivoire".)
...or, as some languages do, even "translate" it by pronounciation: Kotdivuāra