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_diacritics
--
Steven
_______________________________________________
Python-Dev mailing list
Python-Dev@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
