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| petteri Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4933 days ago 117 posts - 208 votes  Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: German, Spanish | Message 9 of 12 10 February 2012 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
Then Finns write with foreign keyboards they replace ä and ö with a and o. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 10 of 12 10 February 2012 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't know about ancient technology like telegrams and I don't know about how Finns dealt with computers, but in most of Western Europe ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) or similar character encodings were used. Most of the time we didn't need to worry about conversion to ASCII /26 letter alphabet; sporting event leader boards and URLs being notable exceptions. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Eagle32 Groupie New Zealand Joined 6502 days ago 56 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 11 of 12 11 February 2012 at 12:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks Doitsujin, "yes, but with exceptions" was the answer I was expecting, but it's good to have it clearly explained.
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| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4863 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 12 of 12 11 February 2012 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I didn't know that Finnish names were sometimes adapted to the German convention in
official media. IMO that's quite non-professional. It's worth remembering that in Finnish language these dotted letters are separate letters and not a different sounding version of them, like in German (hence the name Umlaut). Therefore is a bit strange that a lot of people seem to refer to the Finnish ä and ö as umlauts. What is the proper term in English? just dotted letters/vowels? Just to add a bit more, replacing the ä with ae and ö with oe in Finnish would change the meaning of some words and make others completely different looking (and much longer). For instance: määritelmä - maeaeritelmae...just horrible :) Perhaps you guys know this already, but just felt like commenting a bit. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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