Not so much contradict as wondering about the claim that it should be a specific Unicode codepoint when Unicode wasn't around when we started "computering" text (and the Académie Française can't have possibly formally declared things in terms of Unicode =)
What are the actual official rules in this case (and are there links to those? Because that'd be fascinating information to read through)?
What are the actual official rules in this case (and are there links to those? Because that'd be fascinating information to read through)?