No it's not ! What is considered acceptable is dropping the diacritics
when the capital letter is an INITIAL letter, (It's a debate also), but
for sure when you write in ALL capitals it's definitely not !
Fair enough for newspapers headlines and all-caps headers in text, especially when a diacritic is needed to prevent ambiguity.
Not when producing about name/address blocks in mailings in Canada.
A shocking number of corporate data-bases in Canada, certainly the majority, continue to maintain customer/subscriber/policy holder/cardholder data only in uppercase and without diacritics.
The policy I described is what is done because complaints *are* received if names that should have diacritics on them are title-cased while complaints are *not* received when they are left as uppercase.
This also applies to names inserted into text in letters.
Check with any large mailing house in Canada on the normal policy of title-casing mailings to English speakers but retaining as uppercase those to French speakers (unless diacritics are coded in the data).
Presuming you know some French speakers in Canada whose names should be spelled with diacritics, ask if you can check the labels and name/address blocks on some non-personal mail they receive.
Jim Allan
