Board Thread:Policies/@comment-220364-20140422223511/@comment-3361105-20140423031930

Staff, at least can use diacritics without trouble, because we can use StaffCorrection to ensure that even misspellings and misuses will turn into the appropriate spelling (most of the ones you mentioned are already in there). Actors, on the other hand, don't work that easily, because we don't have any places where we insert actors' names into fields in templates, so automating it with StaffCorrection isn't feasible.

As far as characters go, we don't have any method for automating a fix for them either, so not using diacritics is the norm (but not necessarily the rule).