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		tonyedgecombe on May 21, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Text editing hates you too (2019) Only if you didn't leave the US. Over in Europe (and I assume Asia) it was a constant source of problems.

_abox on May 22, 2021 [–]

I thought it was fine really. It forced us to drop some of the quirkier characters sooner. Nobody in the Netherlands uses things like the paragraph sign anymore, or the 'ĳ' glyph. And accents on words are now pretty much optional.

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