# Are We Allowed to Use Foreign Letters in Our Titles (Like ΠΙ, Kolędy, and

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**Created:** [December 19, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-allowed-to-use-foreign-letters-in-our-titles-like-928-921-kol-281-dy-and/219934 "2003-12-19T08:14:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-allowed-to-use-foreign-letters-in-our-titles-like-928-921-kol-281-dy-and/219934/1 "2003-12-19T08:14:17Z")

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Well, if the title I just typed shows up as I planned, that will answer the _technical_ part of my question (BTW, ΠΙ, Kolędy, and ﻱ are the Greek word for “Pi”, the Polish word for Christmas carols [hey, it’s all I could think of at this moment] and the Arabic letter _Yeh_ by itself, thrown in for good measure). I have never seen foreign letters used in thread titles **ever** , so though the question may seem odd to some, I have actually wondered about this.

The next question, I guess, would be whether it is **allowed** (though I would guess it is allowed as long as you don’t post something no one understands, thus peaking the moderators suspicions you might have posted something obscene or otherwise forbidden).

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**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-allowed-to-use-foreign-letters-in-our-titles-like-928-921-kol-281-dy-and/219934/2 "2003-12-19T08:25:26Z")

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Unicode evidently seems **not** to work in titles. **Works** for most people in the **body** of the post (I did [a thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=225332) on that a while back).

Since it **doesn’t** seem to work in titles, I think that whether or not it is allowed is moot… (whew, saved from accusation of Junior Modding :D)

Dani

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-allowed-to-use-foreign-letters-in-our-titles-like-928-921-kol-281-dy-and/219934/3 "2003-12-23T22:26:21Z")

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Trying some letters with hats: Ézàô£

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-allowed-to-use-foreign-letters-in-our-titles-like-928-921-kol-281-dy-and/219934/4 "2003-12-23T22:28:54Z")

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ÐðÞþ

So while unicode doesn’t work, extended ASCII seems to.