At 18:20 11/10/2000 +0200, =?UTF-8?B?S2FybHNzb24gS2VudCAtIGtla2E=?= wrote:
>And in which part(s) of the world would that be? Dropping the ring above
>(which is NOT a degree mark) generally changes the meaning of the word
>containing it, either to a word with a completely different meaning,
>or to a plain misspelling.
Norway, for one.
For many years, the standard transliteration for use in email addresses and
domain names has been the single-character substitution of ��� -> aoa.
Which brings a point - transliteration is not only locale and
user-preference dependent, it is context dependent.
One solution does not fit all.
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