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"normal" letter sounds rather judging, doesn't it? Altough I suspect it is probably a product of an undereducated person.

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Agreed, simply "please use the unaccented letter" would have been fine instructions. Accented letters are pretty "normal" in many languages.

Accented letters are not the only issue. Apart from the already mentioned apostrophes and hyphens, there are consonants with diacritics such as ç, č and ñ, or cases where substituting an “accented” letter with the corresponding unaccented one is not appropriate (e.g. ä in German is transcribed as ae in ASCII).

> "normal" letter sounds rather judging, doesn't it?

it is a bit.

> Altough I suspect it is probably a product of an undereducated person.

Or an attempt to use non-technical English. I doubt if most people know what an ASCII character is.

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