The related wikipedia article write that it was a urband leyend:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuaci%C3%B3n_de_las_may%C3%BAsculas

So is wrong to drop these accents.


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Mark Williamson<[email protected]> wrote:
> Since when does Spanish drop accent markers in capital form? If you
> have seen anybody do this, it is just a misspelling. For example:
> http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ópera or
> http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/África or
> http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Océano_Índico
>
> I have been told that Greek drops accents in capital form but this may
> not be true. Other than that, though, I am not acquainted with any
> language that does such a thing (but of course that doesn't mean none
> exist).
>
> Mark
>
> skype: node.ue
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Brion Vibber<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 7/28/09 10:04 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark Williamson<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> Case insensitivity shouldn't be a problem for any language, as long as
>>>> you do it properly.
>>>>
>>>> Turkish and other languages using dotless i, for example, will need a
>>>> special rule - Turkish lowercase dotted i capitalizes to a capital
>>>> dotted İ while lowercase undotted ı capitalizes to regular undotted I.
>>>
>>> And so what if a wiki is multilingual and you don't know what language
>>> the page name is in?  What if a Turkish wiki contains some English
>>> page names as loan words, for instance?
>>
>> Indeed, good handling of case-insensitive matchings would be a big win
>> for human usability, but it's not easy to get right in all cases.
>>
>> The main problems are:
>>
>> 1) Conflicts when we really do consider something separate, but the case
>> folding rules match them together
>>
>> 2) Language-specific case folding rules in a multilingual environment
>>
>> Turkish I with/without dot and German ß not always matching to SS are
>> the primary examples off the top of my head. Also, some languages tend
>> to drop accent markers in capital form (eg, Spanish). What can or should
>> we do here?



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