The French Revolution was driven by good Enlightenment principles and all languages that belonged to the dark irrational past had to be eliminated. Until 15 years ago it was still illegal to give your child a *name* that wasn't on an approved list (which naturally didn't include Breton or any other inferior language) even if it didn't need accents.
At 22:43 07/08/02 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Marco Cimarosti <marco dot cimarosti at essetre dot it> quoted:
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>> Three years later, the lawsuit was still on, and a court in Perpinyŕ
>> reminded the parents that, from 2nd Termidor on, every French citizen
>> was bound to use French when addressing to the Administration, and in
>> any public act.
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>I'm guessing that this is some sort of joke. If a French court is
>really still using the French Republican Calendar, dating edicts from
>the 2nd of T(h)ermidor of whatever year, then it can hardly come as a
>surprise that it forbids little Martí from keeping his acute accent.
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>This is not about character repertoires or combining characters; it is
>about language bigotry.
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>-Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
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