• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    It’s spelled blahaj because I, like most people, don’t have an å (yeah, copied that out of the title) on my keyboard. Unless you want us to write blohaj instead, I guess.

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      12 hours ago

      Technically you should write it blaahaj instead (if writing Norwegian or Danish, that is). Before the adoption of the Swedish å, aa used to be used in Norway and Denmark for the same sound.

      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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        9 hours ago

        So that’s why it looks similar to a or ä. I’ve always wondered that if it makes an o sound, why doesn’t it look like an O.

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      9 hours ago

      Blåhaj.

      I hold down the ‘a’ key and you can select it on Gboard. But your point stands, I don’t expect everyone to make the effort of finding alternate language options.

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        7 hours ago

        Also if I’m typing it, I’m referring to the domain name, which I don’t think allows special characters. (Just thinking of registered DNS names allowing all ISO character sets, that would be a scammers paradise.)

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          Generally it’s called punycode and is encoded as xn–SOMETHING. Browsers mostly mitigate those scammer paradise tricks by rendering the punycode domain as intended only if it contains characters from a single script. Like if it contains an å, then only other characters from languages that also have å are allowed.

    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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      11 hours ago

      I use Unexpected Keyboard for Android and I can easily add the ˚ modificator to my keyboard.

      blåhaj.

      It’s unexpected but pretty convenient!