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[David H Wild]

In article <1164232741.215312.322990 at k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
   John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
> So why do you want to strip off accents? The history of communication
> has several examples of significant difference in meaning caused by
> minute differences in punctuation or accents including one of which you
> may have heard: a will that could be read (in part) as either "a chacun
> d'eux million francs" or "a chacun deux million francs" with the
> remainder to a 3rd party.

The difference there, though, is a punctuation character, not an accent.

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