Le Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:44:25 -0800, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net a écrit:
I can use Alt+0156 to create the œ ligature, but I believe that this is in the unstable area of coding. It is not normally on the keyboard. Simply using "oe" without a digraph is not a spelling error, but a breach of typographical convention.
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The question is not clearly answered and many French linguists and grammarians do not agree. If you read French, I may suggest you these documents: http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/pub/GUTenberg/publicationsPDF/25-andre.pdf http://www.gutenberg.eu.org/pub/GUTenberg/publicationsPDF/22-yannis.pdf.
The c-cedilla is a part of ISO-8859-1 and I enter it with Alt+0231. The two byte encoding should not be a worry. It is unavoidable for all chinese characters.
Yes; articles with non latin-1 writing systems, linguistics texts and other are such a burden to format; moreover, html entities make the file quite not readable : You see what I mean...
Would it be possible, thus, to make utf-8 default charsetfor the French Wikipedia?
I believe that it should be the standard for all the Wikis.
So do I. Thanks for your answer,
Vincent