Yeah, but at the same time those name changes aren’t very well respected by westerners.
It’s kind of weird how the west respects eSwatini (well, “Eswatini”) more than it respects Czechia.
Eswatini is more respected than Czechia which is more respected than Türkiye. Chinese people are referred to in Chinese name order, but Japanese people are referred to in Western name order. Pinyin is finally used by Americans but they omit the tone marks. We really are all over the place…
which is more respected than Türkiye
Pinyin is finally used by Americans but they omit the tone marks.
I think keyboards really affect our usage of accent marks. It’s a lot easier to type without the accent. Especially on a physical (English QWERTY at least) keyboard there’s no way to type the accents other than remembering the alt codes. Touch screen keyboards definitely help by making it pretty easy, but I think the largest effect would come from autocorrect changing it by default. I think there’s also a bit of a stigma that makes going out of your way to use the proper accent seem “pretentious”, which autocorrect would also help with.
