[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Tres Seaver]

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On 09/01/2011 11:59 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Tres Seaver writes:
> 
>> FWIW, I was taught that Spanish had 30 letters in the alfabeto:
>> the 'ñ', plus 'ch', 'll', and 'rr' were all considered distinct
>> characters.
> 
> That was always a Castellano vs. Americano issue, IIRC.  As I wrote, 
> Mr. Gonzalez was Castellano.

- From a casual web search, it looks as though the RAE didn't legislate
"letterness" away from the digraphs (as I learned them) until 1994
(about 25 years after I learned the 30-letter alfabeto).

> I believe that the deprecation of the digraphs as separate letters 
> occurred as the telephone became widely used in Spain, and the 
> telephone company demanded an official proclamation from whatever 
> Ministry is responsible for culture that it was OK to treat the 
> digraphs as two letters (specifically, to collate them that way), so 
> that they could use the programs that came with the OS.
> 
> So this stuff is not merely variant by culture, but also by
> economics and politics. :-/

Lovely. :)


Tres.
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