[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Thu Sep 1 21:38:07 CEST 2011
Tres Seaver wrote:
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> On 09/01/2011 02:54 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> If you look at Wikipedia, it says: “El alfabeto español consta de 27
>> letras”. The Ñ is separate from the N (and so is it in my
>> French-Spanish dictionnary). The accented letters, however, are not
>> considered separately.
>> http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfabeto_espa%C3%B1ol
>>
>> (I can't tell you how annoying to type "ñ" is when the tilde is
>> accessed using AltGr + 2 and you have to combine that with the
>> Compose key and N to obtain the full character. I'm sure Spanish
>> keyboards have a better way than that :-))
>
> FWIW, I was taught that Spanish had 30 letters in the alfabeto: the
> 'ñ', plus 'ch', 'll', and 'rr' were all considered distinct characters.
>
> Kids-these-days'ly,
Not sure what's going on, but according to the article Antoine linked to
those aren't letters anymore... so much for the cultural awareness
portion of UNESCO.
~Ethan~
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