Re:How the Å came to be
by henrikschroder on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:11PM
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> I believe there are just two cases:
Nope. :-)
Because in Swedish, ÅÄÖ are distinct letters of the alphabet, they are not treated different than any other vowel, they're not variants of base letters or anything like that.
I was wrong about ÄÖÜ not being part of the German alphabet. They are, but they're not letters (Buchstaben), they're umlauts. So the Swedish alphabet contains 29 letters, but the German alphabet contains 26 letter, 3 umlauts, and the Eszett.
In the end, it's all arbitrary as fuck, with tons of historical reasons for the way things are, and god help the localization engineer who thinks it's all easy peasy. :-)
Nope. :-)
Because in Swedish, ÅÄÖ are distinct letters of the alphabet, they are not treated different than any other vowel, they're not variants of base letters or anything like that.
I was wrong about ÄÖÜ not being part of the German alphabet. They are, but they're not letters (Buchstaben), they're umlauts. So the Swedish alphabet contains 29 letters, but the German alphabet contains 26 letter, 3 umlauts, and the Eszett.
In the end, it's all arbitrary as fuck, with tons of historical reasons for the way things are, and god help the localization engineer who thinks it's all easy peasy. :-)