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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Use of national characters in names
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 13:54:25 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 19 13:54:25 1984
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Personally, I'd vote for accents \'a l\`a \TeX.  (Forgive me if I've
got the accents wrong here, I don't really know French and I've just
spent 15 minutes trying to find the right ones....)  In \TeX, the
following accents are available:

	\`	grave
	\'	acute
	\^	circumflex
	\"	umlaut or dieresis
	\~	tilde
	\=	macron (bar)
	\.	dot
	\u	breve (the little ``u'')
	\v	h\'a\v cek (the little ``v'')
	\H	long Hungarian umlaut
	\t	tie-after accent (I've no idea what this one is for)

and these which go underneath:

	\c	cedilla (``Fran\c caise'')
	\d	dot, but underneath
	\b	bar, but underneath

Then there are some special letters:

	\oe	oe ligature (there is also \OE for uppercase)
	\ae	ae ligature (and \AE for uppercase)
	\aa	a with circle (``\AA ngstrom'')
	\o	o with slash (and \O for uppercase)
	\l	Polish suppressed-L (a small stroke through the middle;
		there is also \L for an uppercase version)
	\ss	German ``es-zet'' or sharp S

That covers everything I've ever seen, and a few I've never seen,
though I have no idea if it covers all the European characters in
languages using Roman alphabets.
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