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At least ss is an acceptable and widley understood replacement for ß.

My last name end on "ić" so every time, even on many EU shops and websites, I get to choose if I want to write my name wrong with "ic" and definitley get the package(cause the post understands) or write my name properly and get my package in 90% of cases.

Its just plain weird that a Spanish/French/UK online shop will support their weird characters but not full Unicode.



> Its just plain weird that a Spanish/French/UK online shop will support their weird characters but not full Unicode.

Between plain 7-bit ASCII and full Unicode there were a few decades of make-do with several 8 bit encodings.


> I get to choose if I want to write my name wrong ... and definitley get the package ... or write my name properly and get my package in 90% of cases.

every time i walk into a coffee shop i have to judge how much trouble spelling my name 'correctly' will be and will switch to "Y" in those cases

like, I thought Joachim was supposed to blaze the trail for the rest of us soft J's :(




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