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Re: Query on UTF-32 encodings for letters
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
| Marc Espie wrote:
|
| > To corroborate your point, there is one fairly known set of printed
| > typographic rules, _les regles de l'imprimerie nationale_ (accents
| > omitted) that does mention this, among other things. Omitting accents
| > over uppercase letters is in fact a spelling mistake. One fairly
| > common thanks to cheap typography and uneducated people
|
| Actually it is more likely to be educated people who have this
| misconception since typically French schools used to teach that
| this was proper style (omitting accents on upper case letters).
which French schools?
From what I understand, a generation ago, pretty much all French
schools taught this rule. As I say, I do not know if this is still
the case. I have met a bunch of (definitely well educated) French
folks who went to the best French schools, and they all report that
they were taught this rule. One person (forget who) even showed me
the rule in an old text book. But this is a small erratic sample :-)