On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:30:12 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@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/paris_street_signs.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. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
