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vlabakje90
on Dec 7, 2024
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Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)
Not every other country in the world only uses ASCII, Ivory Coast is officially called Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
TheAceOfHearts
on Dec 7, 2024
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You're demonstrating the exact point by showing that they have an ASCII name and an official one. If you're having a regular conversation with someone you're probably going to use Ivory Coast and not the French name.
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That's arguably an English name, not an "ASCII name". (If there was one, it would probably be "Cote d'Ivoire".)
PhilipRoman
on Dec 7, 2024
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...or, as some languages do, even "translate" it by pronounciation: Kotdivuāra
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