# Variant table for the French language
# a-z
# a and its variants : à â
# á (a acute) does not seem to exist in French: for further study (town names?)
# a with ring above (U+00E5) does not exist in french but in picard
# http://www.picard.free.fr/lgpic/a-e.htm
U+0061|U+00E0:U+00E2
U+0062
# c
U+0063|U+00E7
U+0064
# e and its variants : è é ê ë
U+0065|U+00E8:U+00E9:U+00EA:U+00EB
U+0066
U+0067
U+0068
# i and its variants : î ï
U+0069|U+00EE:U+00EF
U+006A
U+006B
U+006C
U+006D
# ñ (U+00F1) does not exist in french but in breton
# http://www.ouest-france.fr/dossiershtm/cours-de-breton/lecture.htm
# or in basque.
U+006E
# o and its variants : ô. ö (U+OOF6) exists in French? No word uses 
# it.
# ò (U+00F2) does not exist in french but in occitan
# http://occitanet.free.fr/fr/index.html
U+006F|U+00F4
U+0070
U+0071
U+0072
U+0073
U+0074
# u and its variants : ù û ü
# ú (u acute) does not seem to exist in French: for further study
U+0075|U+00F9:U+00FB:U+00FC
U+0076
U+0077
U+0078
# y. ÿ only in names? (L'Haÿ-les-Roses)
U+0079|U+00FF
U+007A
# 0-9
U+0030
U+0031
U+0032
U+0033
U+0034
U+0035
U+0036
U+0037
U+0038
U+0039
# - (hyphen)
U+002D
# Ligature oe: the variant is a *string*
U+0153|U+006F-U+0065
# Ligature ae (æ). Only in names like Lætitia?
U+OOE6|U+0061-U+0065