John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> scripsit: >> In recent encyclicals, however, at least as published at www.vatican.va, >> the æ and o are not used. > > Perhaps because they were using 8859-1?
That would allow æ but prevent œ, which might seem arbitrary enough that they decided to avoid both. Another possibility is that Italian keyboard layouts, likely to be in use at the Vatican, don't have dedicated keys for either æ or œ. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
