- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:21:36 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote: > Also sprach L. David Baron: > > > > (FWIW, I rarely see lists longer than, say 20 items. One reason why I > > > could not confirm the use of 'æ', 'ø', and 'å' in lists is that it's > > > rare for lists to get that long.) > > > > http://www.lovdata.no/all/tl-19990702-064-009.html says: > > > > ... > > # w) tannhelsesekretær > > # x) tannlege > > # y) tannpleier > > # z) tanntekniker > > # æ) vernepleier > > # ø) provisorfarmasøyt > > # å) reseptarfarmasøyt > > Interesting. (I wonder if they limited the number of authorsized > professions to 29 to avoid the issue of how to number the 30th :) > > I presume this list tradition is also used in Swedish, which ends with > 'å', 'ä', 'ö'. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Å#Place_in_alphabe > > So, if we want to provide a complete solution, we need to encode these > into section 4.3. I suggest we do so, and then promptly delete section > 4.3! Don't be silly. This would just return to what it was before - an entry in Appendix A. ~TJ
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