An apostrophe is not really a diacritical mark. I think the situation is more like, if your name was, say, Michael O'Neill, that they're asking to change your name in the directory to Michael Oneill.

@Brandin good point although I don't see how that could be disrespecting a culture as it changes nothing in the pronunciation, I'll let my answer stand though, might be useful for people with diacritics

@Kilisi: Change your username to "Killisee" if you believe what you just said. Pronunciation is not the problem here.

@Kilisi: Refusing to accommodate a subset of people based on something that is very common and inherently part of their personal identity is disrespectful towards that subset of people. Regardless of whether you'd say "no weird [foreign] names, just use a normal English name even though that's not your real name" or "no weird [apostrophed] names, just use something that looks similar even though that's not your real name"; this is inherently dismissive of the person's name, identity, and anything else that the name might reflect.

@musefan you should sue google then, because you can't use diacritics or an apostrophe in a gmail account.... in fact it's UNCOMMON to allow such things. Same with stack exchange usernames I believe, at least for diacritics, my username should have a diacritic.

@Flater see above comment

@Kilisi: The OP has made it plenty clear that they have no objection to changing their emailaddress to fit with the common standard, but find it disrespectful that they have to change their actual name in the company's administration.

@Flater, just like SE does... and a bunch of others... if the software doesn't support it easily, then live with it. no point crying rascist disrespect and getting upset

@Kilisi: Why are you talking about usernames? OP doesn't have a problem with that. You said it shouldn't matter as long as people can pronounce it correctly. That's clearly not the point.

@musefan I don't understand your point at all, feel free to downvote

@Kilisi: You said "I don't see how that could be disrespecting a culture as it changes nothing in the pronunciation"... like you are trying to make out that the only purpose of a name is to pronounce it correctly. And yes, I am aware I don't need to pay to vote on here... maybe I will take you up on that offer.

Under no circumstances should anyone reward people who make poor design choices by mangling data in other systems that handle that data perfectly well. The correct solution is to sever the dependency, not propagate a stupid design choice across the entire company. The exact email address doesn't matter; the name displayed to other people in the corporate directory does.

The fact that they didn't intend for it to be offensive doesn't mean that it isn't.

"I actually think it's more likely that it's not an apostrophe at all" – It seems disrespectful to tell someone that you think they're mistaken about the characters in their own name.

Unsure what you guys issue is. This isn't a hill to die on. Almost every non European culture and probably even some of them cannot spell their names correctly in multiple common systems easily. My own business systems which were made here will not accept apostrophe's or diacritics. It messes with searches and something about apostrophes being used in the sql statements or something like that. Too much effort to go through everything and make changes for something trivial.

I disagree - the OP shouldn't have to change their name because some clown in IT incompetent. The OP is entirely justified in making an issue of this.

You're telling the OP that they're more likely to have an inverted comma in their name than an apostrophe? I suspect that the OP actually knows how to spell their own name.

@DawoodibnKareem many, perhaps most people do not know the difference between an inverted comma and an apostrophe, of these many would not know how to easily type an inverted comma. Do you?

Yes, I do. I also know how to spell my name.

@DawoodibnKareem I actually think you either just looked it up, or are making it up... no offence. Feel free to downvote

@musefan actually it would be Keelisi ;) Killisee makes zero sense... but I find myself undisturbed with how you want to pronounce it