Sept. 2, 2011
1:30 a.m.
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Le jeudi 01 septembre 2011 à 08:45 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
This is definitely thought of as a separate mark added to the e; ë is not a new letter. I have a feeling it's the same way for the French and Germans, but I really don't know. (Antoine? Georg?)
Indeed, they are not separate "letters" (they are considered the same in lexicographic order, and the French alphabet has 26 letters).
On the other hand, the same doesn't necessarily apply to other languages. (At least according to Wikipedia.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic#Languages_with_letters_containing_dia... -- Steven