@youronlyone So, in other words, they made it so even old computers who can do #ISO-8859-1 / #Windows-1252 but not #Unicode can still type such words with diacritics via Alt+NumKey combinations. But ē only exists in Unicode (maybe it first showed up on #Windows-1257 but that was only used by Baltic languages), so it can't be typed via Alt+NumKey codes (& not everyone knows that CharMap is a thing).
@pilipinas @[email protected] @pinoy

Oh, and don't even get me #started on the fact that they used the windows-1252 #encoding in public.

On the internet.

For *email*.

They may as well have dropped a fresh, steaming #turd through everyone's letterbox.

#Windows1252 #text #email #WTH #wat #AYFKMRN