An ever-alert reader notes that on the B92 website in Serbia I am described as Carls Kroford.

Huh?

On Charles, the cyrillic alphabet has its own separate letters for our ch sound, one for a ‘hard’ ch and one for a ‘soft’ ch: very roughly the difference between choose-day and Tuesday. Similarly Polish: a hard ch is written cz.

When Serbs transcribe that into Latin script, the usual formula is to denote a hard ch with a little accent on top: