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As a Swede, it took me a while (perhaps in part due to insufficient quantities of coffee) to realize that this "Oland" they were going on about, which I had nev
by ptx 9y ago
As a Swede, it took me a while (perhaps in part due to insufficient quantities of coffee) to realize that this "Oland" they were going on about, which I had never heard of, was actually Öland.
In this age of near-universal Unicode support, is writing it properly really too much to ask? In fact, this mysterious letter Ö is even in latin1 and codepage 850, so the BBC would have had access to it even if they were still using MS-DOS.
- willvarfar 9y agoIts Oland in English. Do you mind that SVT doesn't say Helsinki or that it doesn't call Bejing after its proper name 北京?
- mkempe 9y agoNot particularly minding this since the area was settled by Swedes in the late 13th Century, and a trading town established as "Helsingfors" in 1550 under the rule of King Gustav I of Sweden. The new name "Helsinki" -- a Finnish-sounding modification of "Helsinge" -- was chosen in 1819 under the rule of Tsar Alexander I as part of the Russian occupier's process of erasing Swedish presence and influence in Finland. The city had fallen to the Russian invaders in 1808; a new town name of "Alexandria" was considered in 1812; maybe you should demand we call it that, and write the name in Cyrillic. By the way it's "It's" in English.
- mncharity 9y agoAs I recall, there was a time when Google Maps showed native names and glyphs, with english/latin "subtitles". I liked it. And I hoped it was the start the new way this would be handled. Regrettably not.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago“Kalmar Lans Museum” is annoying to me because it should be ”Läns”, and they could have just said “County” if the Ä is so hard!