If a traveler from another keyboard can easily type accents by
pressing on the desired letter and then holding it until a smart keyboard with different types of accents for that particular letter shows up...
- This is how it works on my cell phone. You then just choose the desired accent.
With the above said, if you're an English speaker and not in France...you will write Roman Polanski. Yet, let us pretend you're on vacation in France (Cannes area) and you see a billboard or words written somewhere of the same name...
- You'll most likely visually see Román Polanski. You may then use the same way of spelling with the proper accents to communicate to others outside of France while you're still in France...tourists are known to do this.
In contrast, if you're an English speaker (you know no other languages), you're writing online to someone that speaks English and you're not in France...most likely you will not write Román Polanski (with the accent).
Simply, I usually make the effort on my English cell phone to make sure I type Québec and
not Quebec and proper accents on all French words when I'm communicating with other French speakers...
it is just a habit.
Yet, when I communicate with family or friends that speak
only English and I mention a popular French word / name...I will make an effort to write it with its proper spelling in French with accents.
For example, I have Lakota relatives that live in Arizona and they do not know their Lakota language nor do they speak French. They only speak English. If they write me a message in English and ask me about hotel rates at the "Chateau Frontenac"...I will respond to them that it is Fairmont Le Château Frontenac via habit.
By the way, stupid debate because someone can not determine someone's location via
Predictive Text...something that can be turned off (auto correct) in the Settings.
wrbtrader