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I think the aversion against language-specific characters such as Norwegian Æ - Ø - Å is a relic of the early computer age when systems really balked when trying to process these non-standard characters. I'm not sure how much difference four-and-a-half years (since the above entry was submitted) has
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It's not a problem now, and wasn't a problem in 2003 for browsers etc. to render characters which are not part of the base ASCII character set. He raises a valid point as to searching, but that has, as far as I can tell been solved here, by using a redirect from
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I thought we didn't use "diacritical marks" in article titles becuse of searching problems. The normal way, used in Norwegian as well as English, of rendering the letter
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made on the perception of this issue, but I do sense that it is generally accepted today to let the system handle also these characters without any user intervention. __
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on Knowledge. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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in all these cases, but I don't know for sure. In the meantime, I am going to create
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