From:	Peter Makholm	Date:	Mon Jan 14 22:29:27 2008
Subject:	Re: regex of the month (decade?)

David Landgren <david@landgren.net> writes:

> At that point, a vote was taken, and the result was that some other
> accented character like ý or something made it in at the expense of
> Âœ. What did get in were the decidedly less useful Æ and æ ligatures.

Quite interesting discussion over all, but also quite off topic, so I
joined until now. Which is most usefull of the french oe-ligature or
the scandinavian letter æ I don't know.

But part of the explanation should be that the scandinavian delegates
pushed for 'æ' to be accepted as a full letter and not just an
ligature. This succedded and therefore 'æ' got included in iso-8859-1,
and I'm quite sure that iso-8859-15 makes the same distinction.

In english 'æ' is still considered a ligature.


But as a non-ascii using european I prefere iso-8859-1(5) to
unicode. Much easier to work with, but I havn't really had the need to
mix different alphabets. 


> but never saw it in use. Then last week I read two articles on two
> different web sites that used this convention. I found it quite
> jarring. What's next, "welcome to the reäl world?"

But only if the pronouncation 're-al' would become widespread.

//Makholm