Convert on uppercase unaccentent unicode character
Ricardo Aráoz
ricaraoz at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 20:07:32 EDT 2007
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>> Malheureusement, I see that absence of accented capitals is a modern
>> phenomenon that is regarded as an impediment to the language mostly
>> stemming from laziness of individual authors and inadequacy of low-end
>> typesetting software. I hadn't realised I was so up-to-date ;-)
>>
>> So I will have to stop propagating this misinformation.
>>
>
> Thats really weird, because I was taught in school that caps are not to
> be accented. In school! Big Brother is an idiot.
>
> I'm equally ammused by the part of JBJ's link where it says that a
> missing acccent "fait hésiter sur la prononciation". Yeah, AS IF written
> French had anything to do with the way it is pronounced. Not that I
> don't like french, mind you. Everywhere outside action movies its pretty
> cool.
>
> /W
Then you never saw Taxi. Or some of Depardieu's ones. Or Les
adventuriers (sp?) (that's a reeeeally old one), or I comme Icarus....
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