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Re:The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know A... by bmicraft on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:27PM (#37745856)
They sure are letters, but they aren't generally thought of as being in the alphabet (which seems to be why they are just kinda tacked on after a space on wikipedia) and get ordered as if they where just the base letter (mostly)
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Re:The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know A... by Symbiote on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:35AM (#37749668)
Note that in Swedish they are considered letters, and in Danish and Norwegian Æ, Ø and Å are letters.
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Re:The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know A... by paledot on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:20AM (#37752358)
Letters which are sorted separately from what we'd think of as the base characters in English (they appear at the end of the alphabet, as W X Y Z Æ Ø Å, with C often omitted in Norwegian).

By contrast, my French dictionary has énorme nestled between enorgueillir and enquiérir. (Looking for an example does underscore some of the patterns in the language: page after page of ét~ with only a few et~ and one êt~ among them; pages of ex~ with no éx~ at all.)

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Re:The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know A... by kalleboo on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:23AM (#37762786)
Similarly in Swedish, W was not considered a letter but just a variant of V, so in phone books etc all the W names were mixed in with V names. This was changed in 2006 due to an increase in English loanwords.
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