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Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name (globalnews.ca)
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Signposts on the Vancouver street bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet.

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[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Updating databases to support anything other than that which would run on a 1970s mainframe costs the sort of money that eats into C-level’s yacht funds, so it won’t happen.

Even so, multiple strategies to include unicode characters in ASCII exist. *sigh*

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