# Copyright (C) 2004 Simon Josefsson
# Copyright (C) 2003 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> / AFNIC
# Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
# are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
# notice and this notice are preserved.

version "1.0"
tld fr
 
# Variant table for the French language
# See Internet-Draft draft-hoffman-idn-reg-00
#
# Designed at AFNIC

# This table is built by starting from the characters that are
# actually used in French.

# a-z
# a and its variants : à â
# á (a acute) does not seem to exist in French: for further study (town names?)
# a with ring above <U+00E5> does not exist in french but in picard
# <URL:http://www.picard.free.fr/lgpic/a-e.htm>
U+0061|U+00E0:U+00E2
U+0062
# c and ç
U+0063|U+00E7
U+0064
# e and its variants : è é ê ë
U+0065|U+00E8:U+00E9:U+00EA:U+00EB
U+0066
U+0067
U+0068
# i and its variants : î ï
U+0069|U+00EE:U+00EF
U+006A
U+006B
U+006C
U+006D
# n
# ñ <U+00F1> does not exist in french but in breton
# <URL:http://www.ouest-france.fr/dossiershtm/cours-de-breton/lecture.htm>
# or in basque.
U+006E
# o and its variants : ô. ö <U+00F6> exists in French? No word uses 
# it.
# ò <U+00F2> does not exist in french but in occitan
# <URL:http://occitanet.free.fr/fr/index.html>
U+006F|U+00F4
U+0070
U+0071
U+0072
U+0073
U+0074
# u and its variants : ù û ü
# ú (u acute) does not seem to exist in French: for further study
U+0075|U+00F9:U+00FB:U+00FC
U+0076
U+0077
U+0078
# y. ÿ only in names? (L'Haÿ-les-Roses)
U+0079|U+00FF
U+007A
# 0-9
U+0030
U+0031
U+0032
U+0033
U+0034
U+0035
U+0036
U+0037
U+0038
U+0039
# - (hyphen)
U+002D
# Ligature ae (æ). Only in names like Lætitia?
U+00E6|U+0061U+0065
# Ligature oe (not in Latin-1)
U+0153|U+006FU+0065

# Some references:
# http://www.sdv.fr/orthonet/pages/informations_p6.html
# regional languages
# http://www.ouest-france.fr/dossiershtm/cours-de-breton/lecture.htm
# http://occitanet.free.fr/fr/index.html
# http://www.picard.free.fr/lgpic/a-e.htm