[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project (original) (raw)

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/Alfabetoespa%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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