Re: Encoding Bengali Vowel forms (again)

From: John Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 19:23:14 EDT


on 5/2/00 9:19 AM, Antoine Leca at Antoine.Leca@renault.fr wrote:

> But the evil is already done: most
> people in France now believe that the correct way is to drop the accents
> on upper-case, being "majuscule" (first letter in a sentence or a proper
> noun, a.k.a. title-case) or "capitale" (all letters in upper case).
>
>

And a lot of people outside of France. A couple of us at the IUC in
Amsterdam got our wrists slapped when we casually let slip this bit of
misinformation.

=====
John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
tseng@blueneptune.com
http://www.blueneptune.com/~tseng



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