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amiga386
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Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
From what I've observed, if they only get ASCII they write out the diacritics phonetically. As an example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Huelsbeck
interchangably uses Hülsbeck and Huelsbeck, but never Hulsbeck
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