* Bjoern Schliessmann (Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:51:54 +0200) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > The 'L' is actually pronounced like the English "w"... > > '?' originally comes from "L" (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?>) and > is AFAIK transcribed so.
There are lots of possible transcriptions for "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH STROKE". Transcription is language dependent so the English and German transcriptions of Polish names are different. > Also, a friend of mine writes himself "Lukas" (pronounced L-) even > though in Polish his name is ?ukas (short Wh-). Why do you try to use characters in a character set that does not contain these characters? That doesn't make any sense. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list