(Cliquez sur « Accentuation des majuscules »)

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Excusez ma paresse si j'ecris en anglais. De toute facon je n'arrive pas
a faire les accents...

I'd be interested in the views of native French speakers (and others) on
the use of accents on capital letters. I was brought up that you simply
didn't do it. But a translator doing a job for me has accented the
initial letter of Etats-Unis. Her argument, which makes a lot of sense,
is that if you don't you have problems with the spellchecker, and I can
see that you would also run into issues with automatic change of case. I
googled Etats-Unis, and both accented and unaccented forms are to be
found.

What are any related issues? Is it possible to set MS Word (for example)
to display E'tats-Unis (E' representing E acute) as Etats-Unis while
recognising the accented character in spell-checks and automatic changes
of case?

"RobHK" <invalid at (no spam) hjtredfn.com> wrote in message
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Excusez ma paresse si j'ecris en anglais. De toute facon je n'arrive
pas a faire les accents...

I'd be interested in the views of native French speakers (and others)
on the use of accents on capital letters. I was brought up that you
simply didn't do it. But a translator doing a job for me has accented
the initial letter of Etats-Unis. Her argument, which makes a lot of
sense, is that if you don't you have problems with the spellchecker,
and I can see that you would also run into issues with automatic change
of case. I googled Etats-Unis, and both accented and unaccented forms
are to be found.

What are any related issues? Is it possible to set MS Word (for
example) to display E'tats-Unis (E' representing E acute) as Etats-Unis
while recognising the accented character in spell-checks and automatic
changes of case?


Hello Rob.

All the years I worked in the Canadian federal government management
insisted on all accents being shown in both upper and lower case. In
those days such rules and regulations were established for federal
government departments through the Department of Public Works' Federal
Identity Program, however, all the provincial governments and the
private sector (Gazette de Montréal, Le Droit) followed its "guidelines"
although some less willingly than others. At External Affairs, for
example, it was always l'Équateur and les États-Unis, I never saw it
otherwise. I also noticed recently (this question comes up quite often
here in Politically-Correct Ottawa) that the French newspapers Le
Parisien, Le Monde and Le Figaro all use accented upper case.

È=alt+0200 - É=alt+0201 - À=alt+0192 - �=alt+0193. Hope this helps for
a start.

A+

Excusez ma paresse si j'ecris en anglais. De toute facon
je n'arrive pas
a faire les accents...

I'd be interested in the views of native French speakers
(and others) on
the use of accents on capital letters. I was brought up
that you simply
didn't do it. But a translator doing a job for me has
accented the
initial letter of Etats-Unis. Her argument, which makes a
lot of sense,
is that if you don't you have problems with the
spellchecker, and I can
see that you would also run into issues with automatic
change of case. I
googled Etats-Unis, and both accented and unaccented forms
are to be
found.

What are any related issues? Is it possible to set MS Word
(for example)
to display E'tats-Unis (E' representing E acute) as
Etats-Unis while
recognising the accented character in spell-checks and
automatic changes
of case?

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(Cliquez sur « Accentuation des majuscules »)

Si quelqu'un vous affirme le contraire, ce sera lui (ou
elle) contre l'Académie française et devinez quoi ? Il ou
elle prétendra en savoir plus que cette docte Académie

È=alt+0200 - É=alt+0201 - À=alt+0192 - Á=alt+0193. Hope this helps for
a start.

On 31 May 2008 16:31:57 GMT, RobHK <invalid at (no spam) hjtredfn.com> wrote:


È=alt+0200 - É=alt+0201 - À=alt+0192 - Á=alt+0193. Hope this helps for
a start.



Thanks, but that wasn't the issue. It's that I was using a laptop with
no numerical pad. (There is, I now see, a way of using certain keys as
if numerical pad, but I haven't tried it yet and it might be awkward
to constantly click the Num Lock on and off.)

Hi Rod. I was the one who gave you those examples. My desk tops are
both Canadian HPs and both come with a number pad so entering alt codes
is easy. ...
Some people find it easier though to go to "regional and language
options" in the control panel and add a French keyboard which can be
toggled with any others (maximum by a simple (left)alt-shift. Then
run through the keys and annotate where the accented letters are. Hope
this helps.

Tony Vella wrote:
Hi Rod. I was the one who gave you those examples. My desk tops are
both Canadian HPs and both come with a number pad so entering alt codes
is easy. ...
Some people find it easier though to go to "regional and language
options" in the control panel and add a French keyboard which can be
toggled with any others (maximum by a simple (left)alt-shift. Then
run through the keys and annotate where the accented letters are. Hope
this helps.

The problem with a French layout is that they don't use QWERTY which
can be frustrating.