Norman Werling wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what the French quotation marks are called in French?
Guillemets, pronounced gee-yuh-MAY. In English, those particular characters
are called chevrons.
> My professeur says we will not use the (Alt144) upper case É in
> French. I
> don't recall it being used in Spanish either. Does anyone know where it
> would be used that would cause it to have a code number in the
> ASCII codes?
It's used in Canadian French. It's also used in French French where words
are all caps. My Larousse has all the words in uppercase and, thus, uses
uppercase accented characters.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
