Accents/Diacritics

[thistlemuncher]

Do people not use these any more? Or is it just because people can't be bothered to type them and in real life would use them when writing by hand?

For example, from what I've seen in here, it's rare to see someone using the ¨on names like Chloë or Zoë, yet often on Irish names there are accents. On French names like Aimée, the accent often gets lost.

I'm wondering if I'm going to be sentencing myself to a life-time of annoyance at missing diacritics...

I think they're lost in RL (Anaïs bugs me for that) and people can't find them on the keyboard!

But what about pronunciation? How do people pronounce the names then
Zoe or Zoë
Anais or Anaïs?
To me that makes a huge difference in the name. I assume if it's not written properly, then the trend is not to pronounce it properly either.

I heard A-nay once. Also A-nye-is.

Always Zo-ee in England though.

Anais - A-nay, but have also heard it pronounced A-niece ..can't find appropriate accent on my keyboard either

I think it's fine for names to be anglicised.

With or without accents I would pronounce them zo-ee and a-nace.

I can understand names being anglicized e.g French names like Aimée and Valérie losing the accents (although it annoys me), but Chloë, Zoë and Anaïs are the English spelling.