Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!boring!lambert From: lambert@boring.uucp (Lambert Meertens) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.internat Subject: Re: y with two dots Message-ID: <6783@boring.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 06:28:52 EST Article-I.D.: boring.6783 Posted: Tue Feb 18 06:28:52 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 23:16:31 EST References: <1166@utai.UUCP> <163@decvax.UUCP> <402@snow.warwick.UUCP> <788@ellie.UUCP> <6775@boring.UUCP> Reply-To: lambert@boring.UUCP (Lambert Meertens) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 18 Xref: linus net.nlang:3873 net.internat:266 Summary: Correction Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax 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