Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, that will uppercase the string, but it doesn't (and shouldn't) >> strip the accents: >> > I can agree that is doesn't (though I am taking your word for it), but > a French person will definitely feel it's doing the wrong thing. Upper > case letters aren't accented in written French. > I didn't know that, and I'm not sure I believe it: but then the French tend to have conventions honoured more in the breach than the observance. I just hit a few French websites, and the first one that I found which had any capital letters that might be accented had four accented capital letters on its front page (two capitalized words and two words in block capitals). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list