Cristian SecarÄ a Ãcrit :
According to Michael Everson's site, "The Alphabets of Europe" page,
the French .pdf, character à and à (Latin small / capital letter N
with tilde) is used by the French alphabet.
Not any alphabet taught in primary school I would say.
But caÃon is in my Petit Larousse illustrà (2004), but then it refers the reader to the more common canyon...
As a ligature certainly and it was also proposed and used by Renaissance orthographical reformers to denote unambiguously nasal sounds (I have several books from around 1550 using the tilde in that fashion [facsimiles of such books of course...]).I looked at different other sources and found no other mention about this character as being used for French language (however, my search was not exhaustive). The standard ISO/IEC 8859-16 claims coverage of the French language, but character à and à is not part of ISO/IEC 8859-16.
Should I understand that this charactere was only used in "old" French ?
Patrick - o -O - o - ISO 10646 et Unicode en franÃais http://pages.infinit.net/hapax
