Re: LC_CTYPE locale category and character sets.

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Nelson said:

>> At a conference I attended in Paris a few years ago, a French
>> typographer reported that the dropping of accents in uppersased words
>> often led to confusion

The famous example I know (probably I got this from Alain) would be if a
newspaper headline wrote LE PRESIDENT ASSASSINE, which doesn't tell you
whether the Président is dead (LE PRÉSIDENT ASSASSINÉ) or a murderer (LE
PRÉSIDENT ASSASSINE).

But Le Monde routinely uses accents on capital letters these days, probably
because they are easier to type than they used to be or something.

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