[snordgren]

We would have loved to name our son after my grandfather, but his name includes non-ASCII characters so we went with his middle name instead.

[Y_Y]

Good old grampa \NUL\BEL\ACK would be rolling in his gràve if he knew that foreigners with non-ASCII names had taken over his country.

[soco]

Oh the little Bobby Tables right https://xkcd.com/327/

[fodkodrasz]

This is the kind of compromise I'd never take. (Yet still a million times closer to my world view than the decision I mentioned. Guess I'm stubborn in some topics.)

[PrimeMcFly]

Why not just use a spelling without accents?

[af78]

This may lead to confusion. In Spanish, for example, Pena and Peña are not the same.

[fodkodrasz]

In some places there is an officially acknowledged list of valid given names (for citizens born in the jurisdiction, eg. Hungary), and that format of the name might not be on it. Elon Musk would be in trouble here naming his children.

It is a debatable practice, yet I think this is somewhat protecting the children from silly decisions of parents (some example from Hungarian tabloid media where parents were outraged: Fradi / Fradika (from the slang name Fradi of the FTC football club, without and with diminutive appendix), Traktorka (tractor with diminutive appendix), various names from soap operas, WoW characters, Shrek, Satan.

So think of the children! :) But really, this is the other end of the spectrum. And this (giving especially weird names to children) is a fine recipe for making the child subject to bullying in my opinion.