Re: is "n with tilde" used in French language ?

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin ([email protected])
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 06:52:41 CDT

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    On 2004.07.04, 19:50, Cristian Secarã <[email protected]> wrote:

    > I looked at different other sources and found no other mention about
    > this character as being used for French language (however, my search
    > was not exhaustive).

    Some French locales may include "ñ" to serve the needs of one of the
    Breton orthographies, I guess...

    On 2004.07.04, 22:42, Patrick Andries <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    > But cañon is in my Petit Larousse illustré (2004), but then it
    > refers the reader to the more common canyon...

    From Spanish "cañón"? I'm sure there's an excellent reason to "keep"
    the tilde but trash the acute... ;-)

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