SV: Re: SV: Swedes and character names in strange languages[mostly OT]

[Stefan Persson]

Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. wrote:

> Not true! If that 10 language list had been expanded with 2 (Swedish and
> Finnish) or 4 (
> Swedish, Finnish, Dutch and Spanish) languages I would have been satisfied.

Read what you wrote:

> Well then both types of readers should be
> respected by the publisher.

> Not necesarrily. I have an uncle living in Gothenburg writing our familyname
> with and "ö" like this: Grösfjeld. My father have also done so from time to
> time as he once worked at Bofors. So if my name is to be mentioned in a
> Swedish magazine like "NAFSK-kuriren"  you should feel free to use your own
> "ö" if you like.

Writing it with an "ö" would be wrong.  The fact that the "ø" character 
is not included in the Swedish keyboard drivers for Windows and DOS as 
well as in some UNIX keyboard drivers is irrelevant.

> I guess that's because those characters are included in teh German alphabet
> as well. Otherwise it would have looked as an insult by Microsoft against
> Norwegians and Danes.

It still is: IBM (not Microsoft) included "å" but not "æ" or "ø".

Stefan