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Questions regarding glyphs that are added to letters, e.g. the acute accent (´) in résumé or the diaeresis (¨) in naïve.

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Why does English omit diacritics on foreign names?

Why does English omit diacritics from foreign names that still use the Latin alphabet? … Within their native languages these are often separate letters, and in the Netherlands they would always use these diacritics where possible. So what’s the reason that English often omits these? …
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