Brion Vibber wrote:
On 7/28/09 10:30 AM, Tei wrote:
The related wikipedia article write that it was a urband leyend:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentuaci%C3%B3n_de_las_may%C3%BAsculas
Dang! I've been taken in again by exposure to real-world practice instead of what's correct. ;)
Once upon a time, mechanical typewriters weren't able to properly acceuntate them.
(In any case, handling that case nicely is wise too.)
-- brion
At Spanish wikipedia there're some bots creating redirects from titles lowercased with accents dropped, to make the article show up when searching without the exact spelling. I don't really like it, but where the software doesn't work, users get inventive.