Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile | Date | Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:20:01 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > That's not an umlaut, that's an "ae", which is a real letter in Finnish and > > Swedish (it just _looks_ like an a with an umlaut to you uncultured > > people), and it happens to be a letter that is just left of the ' mark on > > a Finnish keyboard. > > Hey, careful there! Those English speakers stole that name from German, > and in German those umlauts are real letters, too. Incidentally, my ae is > next to the '# key ...
There are still a couple of places you can legitimaely use an ae symbol in English. It's not quite dead yet 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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