Dropping accents for category indexes For sorting See Wikipedia Categorization Category sorting From the page Don t forget to convert letters with diacritics or non standard letters to the nearest standard letters that is standard in English at the time Wikipedia is written examples Diacritics are omitted e g tretat Category Communes of Seine Maritime Etretat or l Category Municipalities of Norway Al Ligatures are separated e g sir Category Norse mythology Aesir Sometimes which is appropriate depends on the language e g From the Bruno K ijer article Category Living people Oijer Bruno K From the tzi the Iceman article Category Mummies Oetzi the Iceman in this case the German umlaut on the O is expanded to an e preferably only omit the diacritic without applying foreign rules that could make collation seem illogic in English Category Mummies Otzi the Iceman From the Arne hman article Category Swedish athletes Ahman Arne From the Lasse berg article Category Swedish film directors Aaberg Lasse Contrary to the previous example the is here expanded to Aa again better to only omit the diacritic to avoid collation confusion in English Category Swedish film directors Aberg Lasse