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Fri Sep 2 02:42:46 CEST 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-September/113459.html

On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:30:12 +1200
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > I recall long ago that when the french wrote words in all caps they
> > would drop the accents, e.g. ECOLE. I even recall (through the mists
> > of time) observing this in Paris on public signs. Is this still the
> > convention?
> 
> This page features a number of French street signs
> in all-caps, and some of them have accents:
> 
> http://www.happymall.com/france/paris_street_signs.htm

I don't think some American souvenir shop is a good reference, though :)
(for example, there's no Paris street named "château de Versailles")

Regards

Antoine.

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