From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 21/22: french ç and œ
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:52:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhc6wvcei.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87skqgwxns.fsf@gmail.com> (Paul R.'s message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:24:07 +0100")
> Indeed, and this latin-1 story is rather sad. But I am not a linguist,
> so I doubles checked through the web and found two ressources that
> I think we can trust :
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Œ
> http://www.druide.com/points_de_langue_15.html
> both saying œ is mandatory.
I'm not arguing that "coeur" is as good as "cœur", jus that if you write
"coeur" *very* few people will even notice it.
Stefan> The "Robert" dictionary sorts "œ" as if it were "oe", so it's
Stefan> pretty close to equivalent.
> I often read text where œ is written oe, so it is a common mistake in
> french readings.
Yes, extremely common. I'd even say that only ones who care are the
same people who get bothered by the "extra space between words" that
often shows up by mistake in Word documents (I'm one of those).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 11:35 Emacs 21/22: french ç and œ Uwe Brauer
2008-10-27 11:49 ` Emacs 21/22: french ç and ^[$(D)M^[(B Miles Bader
2008-10-27 11:56 ` Emacs 21/22: french ^[$(D+.^[(B " Kenichi Handa
2008-10-27 12:17 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-10-31 4:06 ` Emacs 21/22: french ç and ŠKenichi Handa
2008-10-27 12:01 ` Emacs 21/22: french ç and ^[$(D)M^[(B Miles Bader
2008-10-27 12:04 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-27 12:20 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-10-27 21:44 ` Non-encoded character in the subject (was: Emacs 21/22: french ç and œ) Reiner Steib
2008-10-27 23:57 ` Non-encoded character in the subject Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-10-28 22:03 ` Reiner Steib
2008-10-28 23:49 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-10-29 1:04 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-31 4:51 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-27 12:07 ` Emacs 21/22: french ç and ^[$(D)M^[(B Uwe Brauer
2008-10-27 12:19 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-27 13:25 ` Emacs 21/22: french ç and œ Stefan Monnier
2008-10-27 13:33 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-10-27 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-27 20:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-28 12:35 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-10-28 13:13 ` Paul R
2008-10-28 13:56 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-10-28 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-28 14:34 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-10-28 15:24 ` Paul R
2008-10-28 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-10-28 14:59 ` Uwe Brauer
2008-11-20 14:20 ` Agustin Martin
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=jwvhc6wvcei.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org \
--to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=oub@mat.ucm.es \
--cc=paul.r.ml@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).