Should I understand that this charactere was only used in "old" French ?
I have only seen à in old French; however, old French also uses tilde above lots of other characters, such as all vowels (ÃáÄÃÅá) and a lot of consonants, e.g. qÌ (for the old spelling of "que"). Instead of writing an "n", you often put a tilde over the letter preceding the "n". So e.g. "France" was "FrÃce." I believe that this spelling was used until about the time of the French revolution.
Stefan
