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Tue Nov 18 23:43:20 CET 2008


écrite en capitales, mais seule la première et la dixième lettres sont
majuscules. On s’en rend mieux compte si on écrit cette phrase en
petites capitales : « Longtemps Marcel s’est couché de bonne heureÂ
».<br><br>
However, that distinction is not captured in Unicode, nor in ASCII, nor
in any other character encodings that I know of, <b>nor should it be</b>.
There are many distinctions in the <i>usage</i> of characters that are
not, and should not be, represented in the encoding. One could just as
well argue that the distinction between the pronunciation of
&quot;o&quot; in &quot;rove&quot;, &quot;move&quot;, and &quot;love&quot;
needs to be in the encoding, or that the difference between the
&quot;.&quot; in &quot;1.2&quot;, &quot;etc.&quot;, or &quot;.&quot; at
the end of a sentence needs to be in the encoding. That would end up with
scads of identical characters that people would not distinguish when
keying, could not distinguish in display, are not in any existing data,
could not be depended on in processing, but would be just a marvelous
opportunity for spoofing! <br>
Nor, of course, should anyone think of trying to capture this distinction
in IDNA.<br>
<br>
Mark </blockquote></body>
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