Re: Dutch "ij"

=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:

> Of course, you are right. All I wanted to say is it took two hits on the
> typewriter to produce it. But as a matter of fact, it is one letter, indeed.
> Just curious: are there other examples in the world's languages of similar
> behaviour?
Absolutely.  Spanish has always treated "ch" and "ll" as single letters
(despite the recent craven decision by the Royal Academy to change
traditional sort order, where "cinco" precedes "chile"), but types
them as two and capitalizes them as "Ch", "Ll".
Croatian takes the same attitude with "dz" and "dz^", which have
single-letter correspondents in Cyrillic script.

An interesting test of single-letterness is seeing what is done in
crossword puzzles.

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