sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) (08/12/85)
In article <483@talcott.UUCP> tmb@talcott.UUCP (Thomas M. Breuel) writes: > >Diacritical marks, contracted letters, and special characters are >not a sign of cultural identity -- they are annoying leftovers from >a time in which people used to do most of their writing with a pen >(or a brush, on the other side of the world). Let's hope they'll >soon get out of fashion! > > Thomas. I might have missunderstood you, but I like to stress that for a Swede oA, "A and "O are L E T T E R S and nothing else, and removing them from are language, would also be removing a bit of our cultural identity. On the other hand I find it quite annoying with computers who don't know the alphabet (Placing oA after "A) and who uses letter as array indicies and similair