maple classic™ 
me: *uses accented letter in project name*
software: "you can only use letters"
me: fuck off you north-american centric piece of shit á IS a letter
i'm not even angry at the lack of unicode support
but say you can only use ASCII characters
don't say you can use letters
my point is you're illegitimizing letters in non english languages
@squirrel not even north-american centric, USA centric, which is even worse
P O L I T I C A L
@squirrel fucking á is a letter IN NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES, settler ass dipshits
P O L I T I C A L
@squirrel so is fucking 7 idiots (I'm anger at them not u btw)
@squirrel I was pretty stoked to realize pretty much all my programming language tools support UTF-8 encoding and emoji in variable names.
@squirrel Not if you want to communicate broadly, it isn't.
Intermediary pidgen is (virtually?) always simplified. Language exiists _between_, not _within_.
@dredmorbius literally what?
@dredmorbius i bet you're not even a real doctor
@dredmorbius @squirrel is "communicate broadly" a fancy way of saying "speak english"?
Because there's plenty of people with whom one can communicate in languages where á is significantly different from a.
@zatnosk @squirrel Again: pidgen, and library science, both rely on limited and controlled vocabularies and charactersets. But those aimed at common understanding.
In earlier times, common language (and/or charactersets) in Western tradition, were French, German (in physics), Latin, Arabic, and Greek. It's the /common/ aspect which dominates.
So: no.
@dredmorbius @zatnosk dude what the fuck is pidgen can you google that word for me real quick
@dredmorbius @zatnosk @squirrel so you want to prevent people from using languages other than english because it might mildly inconvenience someone developing a system
Not to mention the fact that the characters you're complaining about ARE ALSO USED IN ENGLISH
@squirrel @zatnosk @dredmorbius maybe you should take a break and go to a café and think about what you just said
Maybe have an éclair while you're there, you should find it on the à la carte menu
@dredmorbius @zatnosk @squirrel possibly some gâteau instead
Either way, bon appétit
i get political rly easy