# 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