Re: I lost the \'é\' in my name!
Actually, it's probably not HTML for Andrés, but rather ASCII control characters. If you're not using an "English" keyboard, you'll likely have accents and/or accented characters which don't appear in common English. To avoid forcing folks to jump through hoops to use what to them are standard characters, these'll be directly incorporated [my personal experience with this is the French keyboard (oh, 'tis a dream for writting French!), but I'd imagine Andrés' would be similar]. But you can get these ACCs with a standard keyboard, and I tested these for the name: Alt-130 or Alt-0233. Neither worked. Thus, tho' the effect is the same, it looks like the problem isn't HTML...
Frankly, if I were in Andrés' position, I'd politely inquire if this can be changed (tho' I can think of some technical reasons which might justify this decision). This is, after all, a fairly international board, and 'twould be nice if'in folks could use their own (properly accented) names...
E. Albright
[Edit: D'oh! I just noticed your location, PDF! Sorry if I sounded pedantic; I figured I was lecturing another Yank!]
[ May 21, 2002, 16:37: Message edited by: E. Albright ]
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