Languages and WordPress/Gutenberg... hm...

Let's say I'm writing a post about Luis Buñuel. You can't write Buñuel in a standard paragraph block (unless you happen to know the code for it), you have to use a Classic block. Except, you can't transform a Paragraph block into a Classic block. So you have to copy all of your text into a new block from scratch, in order to render one character correctly.

You also can't write Luis Buñuel as a caption to an image. You can do Strikethrough though. Which is nice. I wonder if there's a stat somewhere to show that strikethrough is more popular than diacriticals etc...

If your language alphabet contains anything other than the English standard 26 letters, you're stuffed. Yes, I could type it in something useful (such as Word) and paste it in; but then, what's the point of distraction-free writing, typewriter mode and all the other composition gimmicks? I can have domain names in non-Latin characters but not my own content? In 2019?

WordPress does support one other language by default though: you can convert smilies to emoji. Marvellous.

I really want to like Gutenberg, I type everything new now using it and I'm quite used to it... but until it can accurately render the language *of* Gutenberg, using it is frequently an exercise in frustration.