>Ar 05:51 -0700 1998-09-15, scríobh John Cowan:
>>Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
>>
>>> Like thorn (þ) in Swedish: a separate letter, a
>>> variant of "t", or as a variant of "th"?
>>
>>For an exhaustive, not to say exhausting, report on thorn, see
>>http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/iso10646/wynnyogh/thorn.html ,
>>which (in brief):
>>
>> makes thorn the 27th letter of the Latin alphabet
>> for multinational sorting (as in Icelandic),
>>
>>but documents seven other practices that have been used:
>>
>> sort Thorn after T (Old English scholarly practice),
>
>This one is also used in Norwegian practice for Old Norse (Norrøn) texts.
By the way this is a short "paper" about norwegian aboriginal needs.
I have gotten no diverging remarks on the present paper.
<http://www.nbo.uio.no/~kaamboe/norsk.pdf>
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