#rules around omitting the acute accent

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rules around omitting the acute accent

lyric jungle
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you'll often see accents get dropped on capital letters due to the simple fact that French keyboards don't allow for them

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there theoretically should be an accent, but because of the material limitations, convention allows to drop them in such cases, at least digitally

stark arch
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i use us international and that has never been the case

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É Ê È Ë

lyric jungle
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yes, you can with US international, not with France standard which is azerty

stark arch
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no way

lyric jungle
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this is a typical French azerty keyboard
é is on the same key as 2
shift + é would input 2

stark arch
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big L for AZERTY keyboards

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US international all the way

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lyric jungle
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note that symbols like œ or « » are also missing, so don't expect to see a lot of them

stark arch
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well that applies to us international too i think

lyric jungle
stark arch
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appreciate it

green kiln
# stark arch wait wym keyboards don't allow

only the keyboard used in France - French azerty - cannot do accents on capital letters (the azerty keyboard is just generally poorly designed for French)

All other keyboards for french can do this with ease. œ and « » also do not exist on azerty keyboards for some reason, but exist on Canadian Multilingual Standard (CMS) and qwerty-fr which are QWERTY keyboards, as well as on BÉPO which is its own thing, made specifically for french

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you'll notice that in Canadian media/etc, capitalized accents are rarely left out

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as a general rule, if you can add the accent, you should