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Capital letters A-Z might not be sufficient though. What about
valid characters like É and Ç? (E accent egu, C cedille)
That's OK. The screens limit the user to upper case letters and in
<correct> French, accents are not used on upper case.
As I recall hearing, accented uppercase characters are used in Canadian
French. The extent to which they are used, I don't know.
My understanding is that in French, the presence or absence of a
diacritical does not change the meaning of a word. Whereas in German,
A-umlaut, O-umlaut and U-umlaut are considered separate letters from A,
O, and U, and are short forms of the AE, OE, and UE diphthongs, and
therefore the presence or absence of an umlaut (e.g., schon, already vs.
schoen, beautiful). (And the "es-zett" glyph, that's so easily mistaken
for a beta, is actually an "ss" ligature, superimposing a long-s upon a
terminal-s.)
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JHHL
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