From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 12:23:30 EDT
At 11:52 -0400 2003-07-29, Jim Allan wrote:
>One the other hand, dropping diacritics from
>names or text written in all uppercase is
>considered acceptable in Quebec French (and I
>suspect also in France) dating from old
>addressograph technology and billing typewriter
>technology where capital letters alone were
>available and diacritics were not normally
>included as part of the character set.
Then you have the old problem: what does « LE
PRESIDENT ASSASSINE » mean if such a practice is
employed?
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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