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The English alphabet does not contain non-ASCII chars. Which makes it quite unusual.
by mongol 4y ago
The English alphabet does not contain non-ASCII chars. Which makes it quite unusual.
- cryptonector 4y agoNot entirely true. There is some use of umlauts. For example, The New Yorker insists on spelling re-elect as reëlect.
- scintill76 4y agoI don’t think people consider them part of the English alphabet. Which letters do they sort between, according to English sorting rules? Also, “Those two dots, often mistaken for an umlaut, are actually a diaeresis… Most of the English-speaking world finds the diaeresis inessential. Even Fowler, of Fowler’s “Modern English Usage,” says that the diaeresis “is in English an obsolescent symbol.”” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...