In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Duncan Booth wrote: > 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.
Second most diabolical spelling system in the world ... after English. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
