Whaaaat? You're telling me someone in the Linux community chooses to be deliberately obscure based on a technicality no end user cares about in a patronizing, elitist manner?

Naah. Impossible.

The issue with the special characters for accent marks and diacritics is their importance fluctuates per language, so you have to keep them separate unless you want to make different rules per locale instead of per character.

They do it the other way for number formatting and that's already a mess. If you've ever tried to work with spreadsheets across locale formats it's absolutely bonkers. Excel outright changes the separators in formulas.