> Le 7 mai 2015 à 11:57, Julian Bradfield <jcb+xe...@jcbradfield.org> a écrit : > > On 2015-05-07, Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropou...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Well I do not know what Dendrinos says I just happen to know what people do >> in >> typography and in everyday practice. > > Which is not what the Unicode uppercase mapping is for. The uppercase > mapping in the data file gives a default mapping, which is appropriate > in the absence of any language specific behaviour (although some > special cases of Greek are built in, particularly the behaviour of > iota subscript and adscript). > Case-conversion algorithms may use additional data appropriate to the > language and environment. > > Many languages have conventions that diacritics may be omitted when > writing in all capitals. For example, in French, it is quite common > to omit accents, or to omit accents unless confusion would occur.
As common as it may be, it’s still considered incorrect by many people including me, l’Académie française <http://www.academie-francaise.fr/la-langue-francaise/questions-de-langue#5_strong-em-accentuation-des-majuscules-em-strong> and l’Imprimerie nationale. >>> The only mark that remains when making all capitals is the dieredis >>> (dialytika). All other vanish. This is common knowledge for people who > > This is a different matter again. Conventions for all-capital writing > may well be different from conventions for casing in mixed-case text, > and in many languages diacritics are freely omitted in all-capital > text -- Unicode specifically observes that accents are often omitted > from Modern Greek all-capital text. This is something that needs to be > handled by the functions that do the conversion; it's not something to > be done by the basic uppercase mapping. > > As it happens, the breathings and accents of polytonic Greek were > introduced into the script *before* it developed an upper/lower-case > distinction. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex Édouard Gilbert edou...@egilbert.eu
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