[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 2 02:30:12 CEST 2011


Guido van Rossum wrote:

I recall long ago that when the french wrote words in all caps they would drop the accents, e.g. ECOLE. I even recall (through the mists of time) observing this in Paris on public signs. Is this still the convention?

This page features a number of French street signs in all-caps, and some of them have accents:

http://www.happymall.com/france/paris_street_signs.htm

-- Greg



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