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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
May 23, 2012 17:53
Subject:
[perl #113006] perllocale Spanish old reference
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-7788-1337820823-1456.113006-15-0@perl.org
On Sat May 19 16:27:05 2012, explorer@joaquinferrero.com wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from explorer@joaquinferrero.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.12.4.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please describe your issue here]
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  From 1754 to 2010, the digraphs 'ch' and 'll' were letters, but in
>    1994,
> words beginning with 'ch' were classified as 'c' words, and words
>    beginning
> with 'll', as 'l' words (in order to simplify computer dictionaries).
> 
> In December 2010, the Spanish alphabet changed from 29 to 27 letters:
>    'ch'
> and 'll' aren't letters anymore. They are still digraphs, like 'gu',
>    'qu',
> and 'rr', but all these are considered as made up of two individual
>    letters,
> so no special collating is required.
> 

Can you supply references for this?  Have these changes achieved
widespread (universal?) adherence in all Spanish-speaking countries? 
(Or will this be something like the difference between U.S.- and
Commonwealth-English?)

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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