Quoting Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>:
> Typewriters are a good example of this. A typewriter optimizes for
> languages like French and Swedish might have a deaf key for acute accent
> mark you can use over vowels (or any other letter), while they may lack a
> similar deaf key for the tilde accent mark, and they will surely lack a key
> for the <ñ>. So an n-acute becomes easier than an n-tilde.
I can't off-hand think of any Swedish word with an acute accent over a vowel
which is not an "e". So the optimizer could probably save him/herself some
trouble by simply making an "é" key.
Andreas