Re: Germa Umlaut (was: String name and Character Name)

From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Tue Apr 26 2005 - 07:36:29 CST

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At 15:06 +0300 2005/04/26, Erkki Kolehmainen wrote:
>Svenska Akademien has now decided (in a broadly participated meeting
>on March 1, 2005) that v and w will be sorted separately, as
>distinct characters. The change will be implemented already in SAOL
>13. Several other parties have indicated that they'll follow suit.

This I did not knot know, even though being a Swede. It means that
there will be more than one sorting order in official Swedish, of
which one is the historic one.

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   Hans Aberg

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