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Where fine cooking and heavy metal collide

For this project, we had to ensure that certain functions work properly with the accented letters which crop up relatively often in Italian (as opposed to English, which operates on the philosophy that if you don’t already know how to pronounce the vowel in a word, you must be a foreigner anyway and should be forced to guess as a comedy performance. Written Russian addresses the problem by providing ten glyphs for vowels, but sometimes requires accent marks anyway).

The solution I came up with involved this policy: test cases must include röckdöts.

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