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By the way, since these accented characters are so vitally important in certain languages, why in the world would ALL CAPS words omit them so frequently?

If I remember my history correctly it dates back to the invention of the printing press where it was found there simply wasn't room to include the accent on uppercase typeface so it was dropped (or in the case of Italian moved to the side of the letter I believe).
This lasted for quite a long time so became ingrained in the culture, so when the technology advanced enough to start including them, people still tended not to. I believe it's only in the past few decades that this practice is starting to die out.

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Quoting TheMadMartian:

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But it is not a capitalization rule, which is what we are talking about here.  In his last post, even Surfeur admits this

How could it not be part of the rules how to capitalise and de-capitalise text?

But I have found something else.
Unfortunately its only a quote from the printed dictionnaire d'orthographe published by Le Robert.

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Il n'est pas d'usage de mettre les accents aux lettres capiles...Mais cela peut créer des équivoques...

Si un titre de journal annonce:

UN POLICIER TUE

tue ou tué?
Il faut dans ce cas accentuer les capitales.

Again its only the rules for converting lower case to upper case. But what it essentially says, it's that you only have to put accents on capitals if it would produce any ambiguity. Therefore we can assume that the all caps text in non-abiguous.

Again as a corollary we can conclude that the conversion from all caps to lower/mixed case has to result in only one unique correct spelling.

Therefore the conversion from E to é is mandatory if it is the only non-ambiguous correct result.

You can conclude perhaps, we is an overstatement. i don' reach your conclusion., So please e careful, you don't speak for me.

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If I remember my history correctly it dates back to the invention of the printing press where it was found there simply wasn't room to include the accent on uppercase typeface so it was dropped (or in the case of Italian moved to the side of the letter I believe).
This lasted for quite a long time so became ingrained in the culture, so when the technology advanced enough to start including them, people still tended not to. I believe it's only in the past few decades that this practice is starting to die out.

This is 100% right. (but it dies very very slowly...  )

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Quoting northbloke:

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If I remember my history correctly it dates back to the invention of the printing press where it was found there simply wasn't room to include the accent on uppercase typeface so it was dropped (or in the case of Italian moved to the side of the letter I believe).
This lasted for quite a long time so became ingrained in the culture, so when the technology advanced enough to start including them, people still tended not to. I believe it's only in the past few decades that this practice is starting to die out.

This is 100% right. (but it dies very very slowly...  )

And by the time it does die, French may have joined Latin among the worlds dead languages.

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You see an error, I don't  I see Garçon as pure fiction based on the data you presented.

Well, caleçon is underpants. çalecon means nothing for me, but perhaps are you familiar with it ? 

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The point is, according to the current direction from Invelos, we are to deliberately introduce errors into the database by converting GARCON to Garcon instead of Garçon....errors which do not exist in the on-screen credit.

Then you're telling us that possession and perusal of the DVD is not enough to allow for proper data entry of some DVDs, and that special "outside" knowledge will be required.  If this is so then we really should be reproducing exactly what we see on the packaging or onscreen, whether it's ALL CAPS or not, and not try to interpret anything, including capitalization/spelling.

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Quoting scotthm:

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Then you're telling us that possession and perusal of the DVD is not enough to allow for proper data entry of some DVDs, and that special "outside" knowledge will be required.  If this is so then we really should be reproducing exactly what we see on the packaging or onscreen, whether it's ALL CAPS or not, and not try to interpret anything, including capitalization/spelling.

Technically true, but in reality how often will it actually happen? The majority of people buying the DVDs that are affected will most likely have at least a rudimentary knowledge of the language concerned.
I see it just like the common name, as long as you contribute what you see in good faith there's nothing to worry about. I'm sure in the long run any unintentional errors will be corrected.

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You can conclude perhaps, we is an overstatement. i don' reach your conclusion., So please e careful, you don't speak for me.

I have never tried to speak for you. But since I'm not alone, we is correct. That's grammar, not spelling.