Re: Query on UTF-32 encodings for letters

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:

| 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 :-)

Probably.  I'm not sure but I think Marc is a generation ahead of me so
he might give an answer there -- but definitely,  educated people I've
met don't omit the accent (my generation, or a generation ahead of me).
The FAQ for news:fr.lettres.langue.francaise reports the omission as
having to do with keyboard defects (historically typewriter).  It does
not say that it was a rule taught in [tupical or best] French schools. 

Which is why I would appreciate to have pointers/evidence for those
"[typically] French schools use to teach" that.  But if you don't have
anyone, it is not a big deal.

-- Gaby