From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:31:29 -0500, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
      
   > In 2010, the Academia Real Española declared that 'ch' and 'll' were   
   > no longer letters in their own right, but digraphs (like 'ph' in   
   > English). As such words with 'ch' would be alphabetized after 'cg'   
   > and before 'ci', and those with 'll' would have that between 'lk'   
   > and 'lm'.   
   >   
   > I personally think this was because computers could not handle them   
   > as single letters, and sort algorithms in particular would just   
   > break.   
      
   It’s not the computers at fault, it’s the programmers who don’t know   
   to write text-processing code that caters for different languages.   
      
   > (The rule about two spaces between sentences seems to have fallen by   
   > the wayside years ago.)   
      
   I was taught that that rule applied to fixed-space fonts. I stopped   
   using it when the Apple Macintosh came along ... and never felt the   
   need to go back.   
      
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