williamylee

[misty lion]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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[lusty wharf]

It is considered acceptable, though it slightly irks me.

[wild quarry]

It's relatively common on capital letters as in France their keyboards only have lowercase accented letters for some reason
It's preferable to use the accents when you have access to them, and is typically not optional on lowercase letters, but you can get away with it on capitalized letters

[cerulean cedar]

There's a sort of Mandela effect about it, some people say that you shouldn't put accent (and cédille) on capital letters. That's false and is considered as an error if you're writing something that requires a high level of grammar/spelling. However, you can indeed miss them out when writing on a keyboard as said above, or for aesthetic reasons like in your example

And it goes without saying that they are mandatory if the sentence can be ambiguous. See how

LE MAGASIN FERME A CAUSE DES EMEUTES.
can be read at least in 3 different ways

[real heart]

Are these the 3 possible interpretations?

1. La magasin fermé à cause des émeutes
2. La magasin ferme à cause des émeutes
3. La magasin fermé a causé des émeutes

[cerulean cedar]

exactly

le magasin tho