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Obligatory "falsehoods programmers believe about names" comment: in Welsh, "Ll" is technically a single _letter_. It even has its own unicode point, U+1EFA, tho
by red_admiral 3y ago
Obligatory "falsehoods programmers believe about names" comment: in Welsh, "Ll" is technically a single _letter_. It even has its own unicode point, U+1EFA, though I couldn't tell you anyone that actually uses that. Most people just type 'l' twice.
One of the most common place name prefixes is "Llan" which means "church", as in that Llanfair... place with a long name for the tourists.
If you were to load a list of community wards in Wales and type L, that would get you to Laleston (near Bridgend), and typing L again this way would make you step through a few more before the "Llans" start.
Worse still, this way there doesn't seem to be a way to type "Llanberis" (near Snowdonia/Eryri, highly recommended for hiking trips!) because it will interpret the second L as a sign to jump from Laleston to Lampeter, and then the A will put "La" not "Lla" in the box? Or does it remember that you typed "Lla" and fill this in when you press the A key?
EDIT: read it again and this is actually in the last paragraph. It _does_ remember the second L you typed.
- LegionMammal978 3y agoThe two codepoints U+1EFA (Ỻ) and U+1EFB (ỻ) seem to be intended for Middle Welsh, not modern Welsh. They're marked under the heading "Medievalist additions" in the code chart.