At 11:52 -0400 2003-07-29, Jim Allan wrote:One the other hand, dropping diacritics from names or text written in all uppercase is considered acceptable in Quebec French (and I suspect also in France) dating from old addressograph technology and billing typewriter technology where capital letters alone were available and diacritics were not normally included as part of the character set.
No it's not ! What is considered acceptable is dropping the diacritics when the capital letter is an INITIAL letter, (It's a debate also), but for sure when you write in ALL capitals it's definitely not ! Like Michal Everson said :
Le mardi, 29 jul 2003, à 18:23 Europe/Paris, Michael Everson a écrit :
Then you have the old problem: what does « LE PRESIDENT ASSASSINE » mean if such a practice is employed?
I would add that I learned in school (printing school) that version « LE PRESIDENT ASSASSINE AU PALAIS DES CONGRES ». Here CONGRES is a reunion or.... a fish ! And the Président is or a murderer or... dead !
Bertrand
