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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Sep 2 02:42:46 CEST 2011

On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:30:12 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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/parisstreetsigns.htm

I don't think some American souvenir shop is a good reference, though :) (for example, there's no Paris street named "château de Versailles")

Regards

Antoine.

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