This handy page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency has a frequency table that includes Swedish. So, if

This handy page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency has a frequency table that includes Swedish. So, if you sort on frequency by clicking the appropriate arrows icon in the Swedish column, you can see that both Å and Ö are more frequently used in Swedish than B, C, J, Y, X, W, Z and Q. Of course, all of those have dedicated keys as well and I don't think that's going to be changing anytime soon. The important point is that "the same letter" can have different roles in different languages. In many languages Ä is considered a "modified version" of A (like in German, I think) but still "mostly" an A when it comes to sorting and so on. In Swedish, that's just not the case, it's a separate letter. Our alphabet has first-class 29 characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet). If your last name is "Åkermark", you're sorting a loong way from "Andersson".