colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (02/11/86)
> > Y-umlaut and y-umlaut (French, also used for the ij ligature in Dutch) > > Since when has French used umlaute? Of course you can't umlaut a French y. But the French do use diereses as we do, to divorce diphthongs. Rewrite vi? I guess I shall have to rewrite "roff," too. Bother. "We were playing Seven-Man Seymour with the chambermaid, Sire." "The Dirty, Nasty, Young Men's Polish Association doesn't have any chambermaids!" -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: csdsicher@sunyabva
lambert@boring.uucp (Lambert Meertens) (02/18/86)
In article <6775@boring.UUCP> lambert@boring.UUCP (I) wrote: > (Although it is the case that Spanish rr and ll are sorted as single > letters, but are not assigned positions in any character code proposal that > I have heard of). As a kind reader points out to me: + I think you are mistaken when you say that "rr" is sorted as a single + letter in Spanish. Although "ch" and "ll" do sort as single letters, + "rr" does not (even though it is considered to be a separate letter). + Perhaps this is because no Spanish words start with it. -- Lambert Meertens ...!{seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!lambert@mcvax.UUCP CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam
ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (e.c.leeper) (02/25/86)
> + I think you are mistaken when you say that "rr" is sorted as a single > + letter in Spanish. Although "ch" and "ll" do sort as single letters, > + "rr" does not (even though it is considered to be a separate letter). > + Perhaps this is because no Spanish words start with it. This is the first I heard that "rr" isn't considered a single letter. Even if it doesn't start any words, does "perro" come before or after "peruana"? It's before if "rr" is two letters, after if one. Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl (or ihnp4!mtgzy!ecl)