They do, but in predominately English-speaking countries (outside of Ireland, I guess) it can be hard to get any registry to accept diacritic marks (the technical linguistic thingy ). Most U.S. States won't put them on birth certificates or state I.D./Driver licenses. Heck, even the American Kennel Club refuses diacritic marks! It's annoying.

I was driving somewhere near San José the other day, though, and was tickled to see that the signs for the airport all had the accent mark! You don't see that much, even in California.

Redwolf

Believe it or not, it's also not permitted to put them on gravestones in national cemeteries in the US, because they do not allow anything in a "foreign language" , although I think they treat Latin as non-foreign for some reason. This, in a country where the people come from over a hundred cultures/cultures (or way more than that, if you count all the various tribes and dialects). Private cemeteries are a different story.

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

That sounds ridiculous!

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