Re: Who is zimbra?
Re: Who is zimbra?
- Subject: Re: Who is zimbra?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:21:46 -0400
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Jan Erik Moström <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Very much so, in Swedish they also have different positions in the alphabet
> and thus affect sorting etc ('o' has the normal position in ascii table
> while 'ö' is the last letter of the alphabet)
Oh, yes. And thank you so much for making that complicated. ;) In
the alphabets of the North, following Dr. Seuss "On Beyond Zebra"
(or Zimbra, to veer vaguely back on topic) in the sorting order takes
you to additional letters, including some combination of ash (æ), a
with ring (å) and/or trema/diaeresis (ä), and o with slash (ø) or
trema/diaeresis (ö).
But the subject that began this digression is Icelandic, which has,
from a modern English perspective, an even weirder alphabet, with all
the accented vowels considered to be distinct letters, and containing
eth (ð) and thorn (þ) instead of c and z.
--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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