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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by jabbany on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:20PM (#36513444)
This is also interesting since in French (and I think Spanish?) W is (correctly) called "double V"
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by namtab00 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:32PM (#36514211)
In Romanian and Italian too.
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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:50AM (#36517629)
Same thing in Norwegian. But W is also not really a part of Norwegian orthography, it's just kind of there in the alphabet anyway. Only useful for names and maybe a couple loanwords.
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