April 29, 2019
4:02 p.m.
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. 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. Arnt