[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Éric Araujo]

Le 02/09/2011 05:59, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit :
> 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. :-/

That is a truth for language matters and linguistics, as well as in
other domains and sciences.

Cheers