I think the parent commenter&#x27;s complaint is about this journalistic article (from <i>Quanta</i>), which isn&#x27;t by any of these mathematicians, just about them.<p>Although I sympathize with this concern, it looks like two of these mathematicians write their own names (solely) in Romanization without tone markings in their own academic publications, for example<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1512.02683" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;1512.02683</a><p>linked from the article.<p>So it&#x27;s not necessarily something that other people are unilaterally doing to them. (Although Prof. Yun has put his Chinese name at the top of his homepage, but seemingly not in any of his papers.) Maybe other people are pressuring academics with non-Latin names indirectly not to use their names in native scripts in their publications because of editorial policies in journals that would discourage or forbid it, or, as you suggested, because of journals&#x27; software tools that would have compatibility problems.