That's ridiculous! A lot of European languages use diacritic marks!

Redwolf

Is that a fada I can see on the keyboard, there? It would be so much simpler if you could have fadas and all the other accents included on a keyboard. Here we have all the French accents or letters with them as matter of course. I see that in the early days when they first began producing typewriters (remember them?) there was an Irish keyboard with the fadas on it.
http://www.evertype.com/celticscript/type-keys.html
Agus dála an scéil - Irish is an official European language, so the EU Commission that's supposed to look after this kind of thing should get their finger out and do something about it. They've already started to get tough on roaming charges.

Well, Irish has diacritics, Swedish has diacritics, Danish has diacritics, French has diacritics, Dutch has some diacritics, German has diacritics, Spanish have diacritics, Portuguese have diacritics, Greek has diacritics... Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Lithuanian, Latvian, Finnish........ Actually, very few languages on earth have no diacritics

It'd be easier to count the languages that have no diacritics: English, Latin (if we don't write the long vowels)... Swahili, maybe?... Indonesian? from memory

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

Even English has them, as written in some cases. There are words like coöperate, where the umlaut was used to show that the two o's didn't make a diphthong, and which the Brits still use at times. There are also lots of English texts using diacritics within loan words, especially words borrowed from French (though most Americans, anyway, don't know the difference between fiancé and fianceé).

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I'm not a native (or entirely fluent) speaker, so be sure to wait for confirmations/corrections, especially for tattoos.

the feminine form is "fiancée" btw

They dunno the difference? however a woman and a man look quite different most of the time

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Is fearr Gaeilg na Gaeltaċta ná Gaeilg ar biṫ eile
Agus is í Gaeilg Ġaoṫ Doḃair is binne

I've stopped being un fiancé after a long number of years, so now I'm a pacsé and herself une pacsée of course - (but you wouldn't have any of that in Ireland, Father Ted wouldn't be having any of that kind of nonsense at all - so I don't suppose there'd be a word for it as Gaeilge)

It's amazing how few people here get the distinction. Also, most Americans don't know the difference between a "blond" and a "blonde."

Americans drop diacritic marks right and left...though I was pleased the other day to see a sign for the big city northeast of me that read "San José."

Redwolf