Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Ask Bjoern Hansen]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > I've also been told that the problem even exists in Western European
> > languages--some languages consider accented (or umlauted, or tilde'd, or
> > whatever) characters different from the un-accented version, and some
> > don't. And in some cases two different languages will sort the same mix of
> > accented and unaccented characters differently.
>
> In Swedish, the 3 accented letters are successors of "z" in this order:
> å, ä, ö.

in Danish (and Norwegien IIRC) it goes like:
 æ, ø, å

(it's the same letters as the swedes have (they're pronounced the
same), we just write and order them differently).

Loads of fun.


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