Re: LC_CTYPE locale category and character sets.

From: Nelson H. F. Beebe (beebe@math.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 16 1998 - 17:16:03 EDT


Keld J{\o}rn Simonsen writes:

>> Yes, some French maintain that the uppercase version of lowercase
>> accented letters do not have accents.

That is traditional in the French in France, but not in the French in
Canada, where accents are preserved in uppercase letters.

At a conference I attended in Paris a few years ago, a French
typographer reported that the dropping of accents in uppersased words
often led to confusion, citing <<Congr{\`e}s de D{\'e}putes>> ->
<<CONGRES DE DEPUTES>>, which is pronounced entirely differently.

Jacques Andr{\'e} has also argued for accent preservation; a relevant
reference may be this article:

@String{j-GUTENBERG = "Cahiers GUTenberg"}

@Article{Andre:CG-6-42,
  author = "J. Andr{\'e} and J. Grimault",
  title = "Le{\c{c}}ons de microtypographie~: 1--emploi des
                 capitales (premi{\`e}re partie)",
  journal = j-GUTENBERG,
  year = "1990",
  volume = "6",
  pages = "42--50",
  month = "juillet",
}

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