> Why would anyone want to do that?
I tend to be with you on this, that it does little harm to retain accents. However, most major periodic popular publications have this practice; for example The Economist keeps accents for French, German, Spanish, Italian words and names but discards others (as I recall).
I wouldn't consider that good typography, that's all I'm saying. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
