Re: I18n issue: French family names with "de"

From: Marion Gunn ([email protected])
Date: Fri Oct 23 1998 - 12:41:54 EDT


Ar 13:39 -0000 1998-10-23, arsa John Cowan <[email protected]>:
>...
>Yeah, but de Valera (at least the famous one) had a Spanish name,
>not French. Doubtless the rules are quite different.
>...

Possibly. I was referring only to the rules of Irish Gaelic.

>> "de Tocqueville", if of noble origin,
>Indeed (at for least the author of _Democracy in America_).

Democracy?

En Am�rique du Nord?

Cela, c'est une impossibilit�!:-)
mg

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