Add Canadian French trademark symbols #177

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1. MDLC01 commented on Jul 6, 2026

   

   MDLC01

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   I would personally be in favor of introducing separate names, such as marquedecommerce and marquedeposee. I don't like those specific names because they are too long in my opinion, but I would prefer going in this direction.

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2. sdalmonte commented on Jul 6, 2026

   

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   Having separate names makes sense to me. Since other trademark symbols (® and ℠) are listed under trademark, perhaps we should go with trademark.mc and trademark.md for consistency.

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3. sdalmonte commented on Jul 6, 2026

   

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   Crossposting from #179 (comment):

   I feel like any option requires some tradeoffs. Here's a few ideas:

   symbols	pros	cons
   trademark.mc trademark.md	concise, describes the appearance of the symbol	not semantic; doesn't make it clear that this is a region-specific symbol
   trademark.commerce trademark.deposee	semantic (describes a French-only usage in French)	we don't currently use non-English terms in symbols; "deposee" is technically incorrect (should be "déposée", but symbols shouldn't contain accents); doesn't make it clear that this is a region-specific symbol
   trademark.marquedecommerce trademark.marquedeposee	semantic (describes a French-only usage in French)	we don't currently use non-English terms in symbols; "deposee" is technically incorrect (should be "déposée", but symbols shouldn't contain accents); doesn't make it clear that this is a region-specific symbol; extremely long
   trademark.canadianfrench trademark.registered.canadianfrench	matches the semantics of the other symbols under trademark and localized currency symbols (e.g. peso.philippine, rupee.tamil)	extremely long
   trademark.canadian.french trademark.registered.canadian.french	matches the semantics of the other symbols under trademark and localized currency symbols (e.g. peso.philippine, rupee.tamil)	extremely long, potentially introduces ambiguity since there's no trademark.french / trademark.canadian symbol
   trademark.frca trademark.registered.frca	semantic (using ISO locale code)	use of abbreviations is inconsistent with other locale/language-specific symbols
   trademark.fr.ca trademark.registered.fr.ca	semantic (using ISO locale code)	use of abbreviations is inconsistent with other locale/language-specific symbols; potentially introduces ambiguity since there's no trademark.fr / trademark.ca symbol
   marquedecommerce marquedeposee	spells out the abbreviation of the symbol	quite long; since it's not within trademark, we lose the semantics of trademark; we don't currently use non-English terms in symbols; "deposee" is technically incorrect (should be "déposée", but symbols shouldn't contain accents); doesn't make it clear that this is a region-specific symbol

   Of these, I prefer trademark.frca/trademark.registered.frca or trademark.commerce/trademark.deposee. I'm open to other suggestions.
4. vmartel08 commented on Jul 10, 2026

   

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   This is simple. To the point. And relates to the specific symbol. The fact it is in french becomes irrelevant IMO.

   trademark.mc
   trademark.md
   
5. MDLC01

   closed this as completedin #179on Jul 25, 2026