I don't think you French Canadians would be very happy if accented upper case vowels were removed from Unicode because they are not used in France. (I must find some way to divide you from the real French
But accented upper case vowels are used in France.
See http://www.academie-francaise.fr/langue/questions.html#accentuation
from the French Academy and the recommendation from the Chicago Manual of Style at
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.SpecialCharacters.html.
I suppose there may be a very few style sheets for French that still want them omitted.
One silly rule that emerges occasionally can be found at http://www.alphaacademic.co.uk/fcs.htm and http://www.sagepub.com/journalManuscript.aspx?pid=9669&sc=1:
<< We use accents on capital letters, but capital A does not take a grave accent. >>
One the other hand, dropping diacritics from names or text written in all uppercase is considered acceptable in Quebec French (and I suspect also in France) dating from old addressograph technology and billing typewriter technology where capital letters alone were available and diacritics were not normally included as part of the character set.
Jim Allan
