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Re:Sabotaged by Polish orthography by jmiserez on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:45PM (#14921854)
Isn’t that just historically due to a lack of space on the line when typesetting?
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Re:Sabotaged by Polish orthography by rbonvall on Friday August 04, 2017 @11:30AM (#14929417)
Yes it is. For some reason many people strongly believe that the Royal Academy (which oversees the language) forbids the use of accents on capital letters, even when it explicitly claims that this has never been the case:

http://www.rae.es/consultas/tilde-en-las-mayusculas

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