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Re: [Devel] Recommended mapings: æ->ae, ø->oe, å->aa

[Knut Yrvin]
> The first reason is that the letter a can represent both a, æ and
> å. It's to simple and contributes to confusion.  The second reason
> is that it makes it difficult to orient for people that are used to
> write ae, oe and aa for æ, ø and å. It's the standard in phonetic
> communication in multilingual oral environment between
> telephone-companies, military and so on. For the third, when writing
> ae etc., then we know what's intended, and that's a value for it
> self.

There is no way you can expect people to automatically guess a persons
user name based on his name.  All the arguments above seem to assume
that this should somehow be possible.  It is not.  The user name is
for the user to remember.  If you only got a name, you will have to
look up the user name.

Noen flere referanser fra UNINETT:

  Retningslinjer for epostadresser basert på personnavn
    <URL:http://www.uninett.no/publikasjoner/unot/unot-2003-001.html>

  Anbefaling om bruk av tegnsett i Norge
    <URL:http://www.uninett.no/publikasjoner/unot/95-009.html>