On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 at 17:33, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Thursday, July 17, 2025, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
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>>> ". "Kyle
>>> Kloepper" gets mapped to "Kyle Klopper (with an umlaut over the 'o')".
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>> Why? Kyle is also American.
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> I emailed him to ask, but it bounced back.
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> I've also emailed a few Chinese and Japanese guys to ask for Kanji.
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> By the way an American might still want their name umlaut'ed.
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Sure. And if they spell it that way, great. You unilaterally decided to
change Kloepper.


> I'm not concerned with why. I'll put it the way they want it.
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I would assume that the way Kyle wrote his name in the papers he authored
is how he wants it to be spelled.



> My ex was American with a French surname without diacritics, but she
> started putting an acute accent on the final 'e' after I started writing
> her name like that.
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Ah so maybe Kyle will see the error of his ways if you fix his name too ;-)