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From: gadfly@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,sci.lang
Subject: Re: accented alphabets and computers
Message-ID: <5599@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 10:02:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 10:02:54 1987
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Summary: Russian and English NOT only ones
Xref: mnetor comp.std.internat:258 sci.lang:1446

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> I'm the one who posted the remark about English and Russian being the only
> two languages written using unaccented alphabets.  Perhaps I should have
> made the distinction more clear.  By "unaccented" I meant "written without
> overstrikes" and "sorted one letter at a time in a fixed order"...

Danish (and Norwegian, which uses the same alphabet) also qualify.
The extra (w/r/t English) vowels are unique single letters (sort order
following "z").  The "a"-with-a-circle-over-it (not an overstrike any
more than the dot over a Roman "i") is a fairly modern creation that
used to be written "aa" (same pronunciation, close to English sound
"aw").  This changed the sort order of words beginning with that letter
quite dramatically ("aa"s come first; "a"-with-thingie comes last).
So, people whose names began with "aa" got to choose whether they would
modernize the spelling.

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