[UA-EAI] EAI address management

[Asmus Freytag]

On 4/29/2019 9:02 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> On Monday 29 April 2019 16:10:30 CEST, John Levine wrote:
>> The right rules depend on who the users of a mail system are [...]
>
> Yes, and your guidance is acceptable IMO.
>
> But you, as author of such a document, should know and use the right 
> terminology. The Nordic languages don't have accents, they have 
> additional letters (ignoring weird cases like the author who spells 
> his name with an accent I've never seen on another word). If an 
> example or sentence mentions Swedish, then ö is a letter, if German, 
> then ö is an accented letter and the letter is o.

While this is true for the three letters that sort after "z", it is 
actually incorrect to say that there is no orthographic use of accents 
in the Scandinavian languages. You will find a certain amount of usage 
for "é", without that being considered a distinct letter.

This is getting in the weeds, but it is indicative of how hard it is to 
make generalized statements.

>
> Getting these things right in prose is a challenge, but if you get 
> them wrong, you'll make people assume that your substance is as 
> unreliable as your phrasing.

A fine line between getting the general idea across to people without 
knowledge of the details while retaining your credibility with those 
that do.

A./


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> Arnt
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