acronyms in different languages [was Re: Attn: Spanish speakers]

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> In English, but not in Swedish, I tend to write
> acronyms in upper case.
I've noticed that British and German news publications often
do not capitalize letters of acronyms longer than two
letters.  The BBC has a habit of writing <Aids> instead of
<AIDS>, <Nato> instead of <NATO>, <Unscom> instead of <UNSCOM>,
and most bizarrely, <Kfor> instead of <KFOR>.  Der Spiegel is
an even worse offender, but Le Monde seems to behave itself
properly. 8P

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