A push at the State Capitol to include accents and other marks on vital records, like birth certificates in California has taken a solid step forward. And it goes beyond grammar."Being able to ...

A bill in the California Assembly, known as CA Assembly Bill 77, seeks to allow residents of California to use diacritical marks — like accents— and the Spanish-language letter "ñ" on ...

In California, if your name includes an accent mark or tilde, it won't show up that way on important legal documents. "We should be respecting people and respecting how they want their names to sound ...

Many Latinos historically abandoned accent marks in their first and last names when immigrating to the U.S., and technology has often made it more complicated to use them, but a growing trend among ...