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In Spanish (but not Portuguese!) letters lose their accent in uppercase. Eg

Opinión => OPINION

While it was customary to omit the accent in uppercase letters due to technical limitations, this is not (and never has been) accepted by the Royal Academy:

http://www.rae.es/consultas/tilde-en-las-mayusculas (link in Spanish).

Personally (I'm a nobody that doesn't always agree with the Academy) I don't like omitting the accents at all in any circumstances.

this might be one of the most common misconceptions spanish speakers have about their own language. most people really believes that they have to remove accents while writing in uppercase, and not due to technical limitations, they actually think it's a rule...

And in french we keep them:

étude -> Étude français -> FRANÇAIS

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