- From: Ben Weiner <ben@readingtype.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:31:21 +0100
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, www-font@w3.org
For the determinists, it's probably time to grab a style guide :) Ben On 10 May 2012, at 10:25, Sylvain Galineau wrote: > > [John Hudson:] >> >> On 09/05/12 3:11 PM, Christopher Slye wrote: >> >>> John, to what misunderstanding are you referring? It looks to me like >>> ordinal é turns up in the real world often enough. -Christopher >> >> [Note typo in my original message: it should be è not é] >> >> Ordinal è shows up when people write première as 1ère, but that is an >> error, and the correct ordinal abbreviation of première is 1re. >> >> The standard French ordinal is e -- e.g. 2e, 3e. 4e, etc. -- except for >> the singular in which one needs to distinguish masculine premier and >> feminine première, which are respectively 1er and 1re. >> > If by standard you mean 'what people *should* do', sure. In practice > the use of è remains common e.g. run a web search for "2ème". > > -- Ben Weiner | http://readingtype.org.uk/about/contact.html +44 (0) 7780 608 659
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