Is there a French language character map?

Question

I'm noticing that my browser isn't always showing all the characters from questions and responses. Is there any chance that the site creates a "character map" page for users to verify if their web browser is displaying all characters correctly?

Example: é

Answer 1

Diacritics

• e acute: é É
• a grave: à À
• e grave: è È
• u grave: ù Ù
• a circumflex: â Â
• e circumflex: ê Ê
• i circumflex: î Î
• o circumflex: ô Ô
• u circumflex: û Û
• e dieresis: ë Ë
• i dieresis: ï Ï
• u dieresis: ü Ü
• y dieresis: ÿ Ÿ
• c cedilla: ç Ç

Ligatures

• oe ligature: œ Œ
• ae ligature: æ Æ

Special chars

• guillemets: « »
• en dash: –
• em dash: —
• ellipsis: …

Spaces

_{(Between ")}

• Unbreakable space: " "
• Thin unbreakable space: " "
• en space: " "
• em space: " "

Phonetics

If you can read the two tables here you should be fine.

• Consonants: ʃ (ch), ɲ (gn), ʒ (j), ŋ (ng), ʁ (r); also the semi-vowel ɥ (u')
• Vowels: ɑ (posterior a), ø (most closed eu), œ (less closed eu), ə (central vowel, so-called e muet), ɛ (è), ɔ (open o)
• Nasal vowels (ɑ/ɛ/ɔ/œ with a tilde above): ɑ̃ (an/en), ɛ̃ (in/en), ɔ̃ (on), œ̃ (un)

Answer 2

A little poll, just to have a clue about what we should do about narrow no-break spaces.

Is the space before the question mark displayed correctly at the end of this french sentence:

L'espace est-elle affichée correctement avant ce point d'interrogation ?

For comparison purposes, here is the same sentence with no space, normal space and normal non-breaking space:

L'espace est-elle affichée correctement avant ce point d'interrogation? (no space)
L'espace est-elle affichée correctement avant ce point d'interrogation ? (normal space)
L'espace est-elle affichée correctement avant ce point d'interrogation ? (normal non-breaking space)

If you want to test it with question titles, e.g. for window titlebar behavior, try Alternatives à la finale « -é » tonique dans « Chanté-je juste ? »

Please fill in your browser information here, if someone hasn't already reported the status:

• It works, I see a narrow space:
  • Firefox: 3.0.4/Fedora [chepseskaf]; 3.6/Linux Ubuntu [Unfrancophone]; {4,…,16}/Linux [Gilles,Stéphane,Evpok]; {3.5,5,…,14}/WinXP [Gilles, Evpok]; 3.6.3/Mac OS 10.4.11 [Joubarc]; 3.6.11/Win7 [Evpok]; 32.0a2/WinXP [Sifu]
  • Chrome: 8/WinXP [Gilles]; 14/Linux [Gilles]; 14/Win7 [chepseskaf]; 16/Win7 [chepseskaf]
  • IE: IE8 (8.0.7601.17514) / Windows 7 enterprise SP1 [Joubarc]
  • Safari: 4.1.3/Mac OS 10.4.11 [Joubarc]
  • Opera: 11.52/WinXP [Stamm]
• It doesn't work, I see a big square or other strange glyph:
  • IE: IE8/WinXP [Gilles, Sifu];
  • Android 2.2.1 default Browser app [Joubarc]
  • Firefox: 5/WinXP [chepseskaf]
  • Chrome: 15/WinXP [chepseskaf]; 36/WinXP [Sifu]
• It doesn't work, I see a normal space
• It doesn't work, I see a very wide space:
  • Firefox {10.0a1, 11.0a1}/Kubuntu 11.10 [EVpok]
  • Firefox {3.6.22, 12.0}/Linux RHEL5.5 [Unfrancophone]
• It doesn't work, I see no space:
  • Safari 5.1, Mac OS 10.6 [F’x]

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And if you have some spare minutes, the developers might send you free cookies if you file a bug.

• Firefox : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
• Chrome and Chromium : https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
• Opera : https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/
• Konqueror : https://bugs.kde.org/
• Safari : https://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/

Answer 3

IMHO The problem should really be solved server side. It is out of question to ask whoever visit the site to tweak with charset and maybe install some extra fonts.

Answer 4

Heureusement qu'on a pas trop de signes diacritiques en français. Sinon on pourrait avoir des probl`̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼͇͈͉͍͎̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́͆͊͋͌̕̚ͅ͏͓͔͕͖͙͚͐͑͒͗͛͘͜͟͢͝͞͠͡mes...