In your previous mail you wrote: I gather that this has something to do with French capitals. Would that be whether a letter with an accent retains the accent when capitalized? => this was and is the rule but because of typewriters the rule was suspended during the 20th century. Now typewriters are in museums and current century is 21th. BTW accents can be necessary to avoid some ambiguities (cf 2nd reference) so the rule (in this case :-) is justified. Regards Francis.Dupont@xxxxxxxxxx PS: no comment about the main subject, there are procedures (including appeal...). PPS: ref: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/langue/questions.html#accentuation and (paper only, no accent to stay in ASCII) le "Lexique des regles typographiques en usage a l'imprimerie nationale" (incredibly useful, unfortunately too light to strike with and as far as I know without an equivalent in IETF English, even the RFC Editor recommends some books I got). _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf