Then you have the old problem: what does � LE
PRESIDENT ASSASSINE � mean if such a practice is
employed?
Yes.
The context where all capital French without diacritics occurs in Canada is generally in mailing lists where name and address data and other data is all capitals without diacritics.
I've been involved with such things for about ten years now, and at least over half, perhaps over three-quarters, of the mailing lists I've seen have been of this kind.
Mailers often want the data intelligently titlecased when used in a mailing because it looks better, even though titlecasing software will have to play the odds for names like MACDONALD and MACINTOSH as to whether to uppercase the first letter following "Mac" or not.
Apparently people don't much complain about the misspelling which much occur.
But if you similarly titlecase French data and there are also missing diacritics, the mailer receives complaint after complaint from Qu�becois furious at their name being mispelled. But leave the in capitals without diacritics and no-one complains.
So that is what is done.
Of course while uppercase without diacrtics is considered acceptable uppercase with diacrtics is still considered *more* correct.
Jim Allan
